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about a year ago i bought an adult rtb assuming it was a normal ( only paid 120 for it with a cage)
a few months ago a snake breeder came to my house to buy some snakes from me. i ended up bringing my boa out too. as soon as he say it, swore up and down that it was an anery. so i looked up aney boas and it looked like an anery. but when i looked up normals, it almost looken like a dull normal
Can somebody tell me the physical differences between anerys and normals as adults. i know as babies they look completely different. but as adults to me they look almost identical. Is there a dead give away?

An anerythristic should have absolutely no red color anywhere! Normals will have red in them.

This is about as close to red as she has on her tail

Here's the rest of her body

I find it easier to tell when they are babies as you have mentioned, especially when you do not have history on the animal. If yours had red as a baby, it is not anery in the sense that the term is usually used. However, who says there cannot be reduced red animals? Happened in a strain of Sinaloan milksnakes, where they are pinkish instead of red.

I didn't even bother asking the guy that I bought it from what the history of it was. He was one of those dumbasses that bought a snake to see it tear up rats. He had it on pine shavings, no heat at all in the winter ( California winters aren't bad but they are definitely too cold for a snake to go without heat), it had RI and was afraid to touch the snake. He wasn't going to be much help if I asked him.
Another thing that makes me lean towards anery is she's not brown, she's grey, well mostly grey

guaranteed no question about it. You wont find any brownish color as well...only black grey and white.

I thought for certain that this was an anery, it turned out to be
just an anery het

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