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What type of boas do you own and why did you pick the or gravitate to the one/s you did?
I have a Tpos Motley I just got and am driving myself NUTS over my keeping the little Tpos motley or just going after the Sunglow which I love.
What drove you to the point you're on?
Why did you choose what you did and not wait for the max after yrs of savings?
just a twist...
thx
1) Desire/emotion: When I see a boa that I must have, I buy it. I never second guess beauty unless I can't afford it. If I can't afford it, then I start saving up, or ask the seller if they'd be willing to do a payment plan. No two boas are the same, and when I see an individual animal that I want, I do whatever is in my power to obtain that specific animal. A perfect example would be an "extreme blue" green tree python. These are incredibly rare in collections as breeders have not been able to successfully figure out yet which offspring will turn blue. These animals are selling for well over $20,000. I will eventually own one of these -someday when I can afford one.
2) Investment: I have purchased double het and triple het boas for feeder projects, in hopes of producing visual animals that have not yet been produced. I also purchase animals that I think will produce good looking babies, and therefore be easy to sell. One of the benefits of breeding boas is that you get to keep the holdback animals. Sometimes breeders won't sell their best looking boas. If I breed them, then I get to decide what to keep. I also have the advantage of being able to sell the remaining litter mates and put that money back into food, caging, or more boas.
I believe that once someone makes the decision to breed boas, the mindset changes as to which animals to purchase.
-Anthony
That question is the very reason that many of us own 30,40,50, and more Boas -- for the varieties that we all love.
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As Anthony mentioned there are a few factors and if there is something I must have I will get it even if I have to save for months for it and I will have that animal or animals! It's stressful but once I finally get that animals it's all worth it!
As David said variety I cannot just choose one specific type of morph or boa to work with there are so many and so options with both colors and patterns where it is nearly impossible to choose just one!
These are the types I work with and why.
Color:
Boawoman Caramel: Not many people work with them so I take pride in trying to make the prettiest and best looking examples to do so.
VPI Caramel: more widely kept and been selectively bred for generations large market base.
Blood/Bloody Salmon: who doesn't like a RED boa. I have picked my blood animals that I believe will stay red and not turn into a brown boa.
Hypo: very picky with hypo boas I have but if the pattern remains unaffected and they have rich red color I'm all about it!
IMG: another color mutation not many work with BUT combined with the above animals will make stunning colors not seen in boas just yet!
Pattern:
Mötley Jungle: you get the best of both worlds you get a motley pattern with a color that POPS
Jungle: the variety of pattern you can get in a litter no two jungles will be the same!
Arabesque: combined with the other colors and patterns should produce very exciting things look at the crossfades (hypo arabesque motley)
Aztec: tight patterns pastelish coloration very cool in combos
Roswell Laddertail: very cool fully connected patterned boa with a sweet super!
Hopefully soon might get into some square tail stuff as with the combos they add a lot of color and a unique look to different pattern mutations.
Love all the variety out there within the boas and not to mention the plain natural beauty of the BCI
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Brandon Nixon
As Anthony mentioned there are a few factors and if there is something I must have I will get it even if I have to save for months for it and I will have that animal or animals! It's stressful but once I finally get that animals it's all worth it!
As David said variety I cannot just choose one specific type of morph or boa to work with there are so many and so options with both colors and patterns where it is nearly impossible to choose just one!
These are the types I work with and why.
Color:
Boawoman Caramel: Not many people work with them so I take pride in trying to make the prettiest and best looking examples to do so.
VPI Caramel: more widely kept and been selectively bred for generations large market base.
Blood/Bloody Salmon: who doesn't like a RED boa. I have picked my blood animals that I believe will stay red and not turn into a brown boa.
Hypo: very picky with hypo boas I have but if the pattern remains unaffected and they have rich red color I'm all about it!
IMG: another color mutation not many work with BUT combined with the above animals will make stunning colors not seen in boas just yet!
Pattern:
Mötley Jungle: you get the best of both worlds you get a motley pattern with a color that POPS
Jungle: the variety of pattern you can get in a litter no two jungles will be the same!
Arabesque: combined with the other colors and patterns should produce very exciting things look at the crossfades (hypo arabesque motley)
Aztec: tight patterns pastelish coloration very cool in combos
Roswell Laddertail: very cool fully connected patterned boa with a sweet super!
Hopefully soon might get into some square tail stuff as with the combos they add a lot of color and a unique look to different pattern mutations.
Love all the variety out there within the boas and not to mention the plain natural beauty of the BCI
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Brandon Nixon
As Anthony mentioned there are a few factors and if there is something I must have I will get it even if I have to save for months for it and I will have that animal or animals! It's stressful but once I finally get that animals it's all worth it!
As David said variety I cannot just choose one specific type of morph or boa to work with there are so many and so options with both colors and patterns where it is nearly impossible to choose just one!
These are the types I work with and why.
Color:
Boawoman Caramel: Not many people work with them so I take pride in trying to make the prettiest and best looking examples to do so.
VPI Caramel: more widely kept and been selectively bred for generations large market base.
Blood/Bloody Salmon: who doesn't like a RED boa. I have picked my blood animals that I believe will stay red and not turn into a brown boa.
Hypo: very picky with hypo boas I have but if the pattern remains unaffected and they have rich red color I'm all about it!
IMG: another color mutation not many work with BUT combined with the above animals will make stunning colors not seen in boas just yet!
Pattern:
Mötley Jungle: you get the best of both worlds you get a motley pattern with a color that POPS
Jungle: the variety of pattern you can get in a litter no two jungles will be the same!
Arabesque: combined with the other colors and patterns should produce very exciting things look at the crossfades (hypo arabesque motley)
Aztec: tight patterns pastelish coloration very cool in combos
Roswell Laddertail: very cool fully connected patterned boa with a sweet super!
Hopefully soon might get into some square tail stuff as with the combos they add a lot of color and a unique look to different pattern mutations.
Love all the variety out there within the boas and not to mention the plain natural beauty of the BCI
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Brandon Nixon
I must admit I was ball python fan when I first fell in love with snakes! But as soon as I stumbled across Rich and Johns site almost a decade ago salmonboa.com I became infatuated with salmon/hypo trait in boas. When my wife bought me their DVD and Tracey from VPI discussed with Rich all of his different boas he had that were manly hypo morphs that sold me. I love what they've done(salmon/hypos) to the reptile pool creating the ghost's, sunglows, moonglows, supers you name it. So a great selective bred salmon/hypo preferably pastel salmon/hypo are my forever favorite morph in boas...... Or a screaming off the chart Normal Pastel boa, but usually 9 times out of ten that pastel normal has a lot of hypo/salmon blood expressing through it! LOL
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