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Thanks for looking!

Orlando
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Dr. Orlando Diaz
LEGACY REPTILES
www.legacyreptiles.com

That is a nice looking Peruvian! Have you ever run across any Ecuadorian redtails from the area around the town of Coca, on the Rio Napo? I was there in 1981, and saw what I consider by far the best looking boas I have EVER seen. I've been looking for some here in the states ever since. Simply amazing patterning, near razor thin saddles of dark black,intense red on the tail, marvelous eyelash markings and a longitudinal sky blue tinting at about where the back curves into the side(like at 10:00 & 2:00) and then lower on the "mid-side" and distinct from the blue was a streak of pinkish tinting. A stunning example of what a boa can be!
If anyone is working with these or knows someone who is, please contact me, or at least post such, so as to give an old boa enthusiast a glimmer of hope!

Hey,
Thanks for the great info! I have never seen one before. If you can share pictures that would be a Keep in touch..

Take care!

Orlando
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Dr. Orlando Diaz
LEGACY REPTILES
www.legacyreptiles.com

As luck would have it, somehow a 4' juvenile ended up in my carry on baggage that year(1981) and survived until '86-'87. At one point he was on a breeding loan to Bob Mackin(sp?)up in Bellvue,was, but to no effect, as I was told.
I was down there on the Rio Napoleon as a tourist kinda fella on something they call a "flotel"(I believe it was the
Flotel Orellano). This was when Coca(the town just off the eastern slope of the Andes, but surely in proper rainforest/jungle along the Napo)was a one intersection"town" across the river from the new oil refinery. We went down river to an "authentic native farm" where they had a small 1-2 room building up on stilts where there were a number of various sized cages holding examples of the local indigenous non-venomous snakes, including a small(5-6')green anaconda, a rainbow boa with skin issues, and 8-10 of these boas ranging from about 2 1/2' up to a pair that must have been at least 10'(I 've been around my fair share of big snakes, so if anything, my estimate is on the short side..)At first o wasn't overly impressed(I used to frequent Western Zoological Supply back before they closed)but then I noticed a most remarkable aspect of this group of boas. The big adults were just as vibrant in colour and nearly as sharp in pattern as were the smallest! Not the usual turning blacker every week big boas, these were "wait a minute! How is that even possible?" beautiful, drop dead in the basement gorgeous.
Long story short,(too late..) I know I have a pic or two in a box somewhere, and, quite serendipitously, I am moving soon so I may actually find it! Then you will undoubtedly go"Ohhhhhhh...wow..
Wait....ohhhhhhh....wow! He was right!" For they were truly the very most awesome red tails ever made!!

Thanks for looking!

Orlando
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Dr. Orlando Diaz
LEGACY REPTILES
www.legacyreptiles.com