Nina,
. Most BRBs in the USA are born from april to september. Many of the best ones sell out quickly during the summer. I have seen a few recently in the kingsnake.com classifieds that look like they will turn out pretty nice. I have raised a bunch of BRBs and most of them have looked their plainest from about 2 weeks of age until they are 15 to 24 months old. When they start improving at around 12 to 15 months of age they get better color each time they shed. This improvement occurs in most, but not all BRBs. If you want great looking BRBs be patient in your shopping and look for babies with okay color and more importantly look for ones with great side creascents and from breeders who will show you PICs of pretty parents.
. WC adults are usually a little rough due to external parasite bites and also often have internal parasites. If they have internal parasites they will pass messy stools and have lousy luster to their skin and not gain weight even if eating well. Treatment with flagyl and panacur usually corrects this and they then often do well. The external parasites are easy to treat with Provent-a-mite and after they are eating well, with no internal parasite problems, the small scars from tick bites will clear up over the course of 6 to 12 months. Imports often are biters but they can be tamed. Small to medium scars on the body of imported BRBs usually clear up well and do not present a serious problem. Imported BRBs with head and nose scars should be avoided.
Jeff
>>I have spent the last few days reading previous posts and came to the thread about the "poor quality" rainbows. We are looking to purchase a pair of brazilians and this seems to be getting harder. I really don't want to choose my snakes from a picture of a "bucket" of snakes and good babies seem to be hard to find right now. Is there a time of the year babies are easier to find, also, for the breeders who are saying (about their brown babies) "they get their color as they age"...is that just bs?
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>>We have considered buying adults and most of the adults available are WC"s. My next question is, how difficult is the acclimation process of wc adults as far as eating and temperment?
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>>We are collectors more so than breeders but if we are going to get something, we want something nice that is worthy of breeding if we decide to.
>>Thanks
>>Nina
