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If anyone has Colombian Rainbowboa crosses, I would love to see them as babies and as adults.

CRB X BRB

CRB X PRB

CRB X GRB

or any other unusual crosses. I saw a post with a very pretty rainbowboa that looked like a cross, so i wanted to see if I could round up more photos of these guys.

Thanks, BHH
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Bryan Hummel
www.rainbowboas.com

>>If anyone has Colombian Rainbowboa crosses, I would love to see them as babies and as adults.
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>>CRB X BRB
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>>CRB X PRB
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>>CRB X GRB
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>>or any other unusual crosses. I saw a post with a very pretty rainbowboa that looked like a cross, so i wanted to see if I could round up more photos of these guys.
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>>Thanks, BHH
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>>Bryan Hummel
>>www.rainbowboas.com

Bryan,
....I was watching this thread and thinking about it for the last couple of days. The fact that no one has posted PICs says alot about the subject. Maurus which will be (or has already been) classified as a seperate species seems to be different enough from other Rainbow Boas that crosses do not often or easily occur. I would think that there are lots of people who own just one maurus and one other Rainbow Boa and would try to breed them. If they were breeding and producing babies we would see many of them for sale and someone would have posted PICs here on this thread. Before 1995 there were many more very plain brown Brazilian Rainbows in collections and people opined that they were BrazilianXColombian crosses. Many people in the reptile community talk about those snakes but I think they just saw very plain brown Brazilians and thought they were crosses and the stories about them persist. Those plain brown snakes that I saw back then were mostly pure Brazilians. I want to say all of those snakes I saw were pure Brazilians but I am not 100% certain. I had several very plain brown Brazilian Rainbow Boas and when bred together they produced babies of typically cenchria cenchria varied colors and there was no question that the babies were pure Brazilians.
....I used to think that the Guyanan Rainbow Boas were the result of naturally occuring intergradation of cenchria cenchria and maurus. At this time I am not so inclined to think that but there seems to be no answer to the question of what they are.
....It does occur to me that if someone were crossing maurus with other subspecies they might want to not say so for either financial or ethical reasons. I think I remember one ad on the kingsnake classifieds for BrazilianXColombian crosses but am not certain how long ago it was. With the apparent slow results in the amelanistic Brazilian Rainbow breeding project I would think there would be plenty of interest in buying some of the amelanistic maurus that Ricardo has for sale and crossing them to Brazilians. I would guess that more than one person has already tried this and found that crossing maurus with Brazilians is not happening for them. Will it ever happen? Probably yes.
Jeff