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..This PIC was taken at Kreatures and Koi, a really nice reptile and koi shop here in Savannah GA. Thad Deppen runs the store and does a great job with it. Thad is a very bright teenager and he has successfully bred Leopard Geckos and BPs and Burms. He also has lots of eggs in the incubator now. The snake in this PIC with me is an unhappy Colombian Boa almost 9 feet long.
Jeff

that snake looks too heavy for you! Better stick with the Rainbows! (IMHO)

P.S. I hope you thought that was amusing, it was meant to be!

Linda

All I see is a BCI, some tanks and an old guy...

I thought you were in this picture somewhere?

LOL
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-Iman
1.1 Sugar Gliders (Gizmo and Nema)
1.0 Ball Pythons (Spot)
0.1 Guyanan BCC (TBA)
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow (TBA)

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Imans House of Herps

>>All I see is a BCI, some tanks and an old guy...
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>>I thought you were in this picture somewhere?
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>>LOL
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>>-Iman
>>1.1 Sugar Gliders (Gizmo and Nema)
>>1.0 Ball Pythons (Spot)
>>0.1 Guyanan BCC (TBA)
>>0.1 Brazilian Rainbow (TBA)
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>>Loving to Learn
>>Learning to Help
>>Helping to Love
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>>Stimulate debates, stifle arguments.
>>Please be nice always.
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>> Imans House of Herps
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Linda,
...I used to keep Burms. great snakes and I loved them but handling them was very hard work. I sometimes worked up a sweat just getting them out of the cages for cleanup. This is supposed to be fun. That big Bci was trying to bite me just before the PIC was taken. It did not get me but had me working to handle it. Bites from big snakes are no fun.
Jeff

>>that snake looks too heavy for you! Better stick with the Rainbows! (IMHO)
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>>P.S. I hope you thought that was amusing, it was meant to be!
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>>Linda

You look like you were in that movie "Tombstone"!!!

Poor little boa (little? lol!) mustache must have scared her. LOL

All joking aside, great picture Jeff. Nice to finally put the mug with da man.

Hugs!

Amanda Rose - amanda was not making fun of jeff, amanda thinks jeff rocks the freakin' boa world. Hats off to such a great pioneer.

Amanda,
...I have not done any pioneering work in the boa world. I know breeders who were producing Rainbow Boas several years before I was. I may have one of the largest and most diverse breeding collections of Rainbow Boas. I may have been among the first but probably not the very first to captive breed Guyana Rainbows. I may have a chance next year or the year after for one of the first if not the very first in the US captive breeding of Campina Grande Rainbows. Isla Marajo and Peruvian Rainbows have been captive bred only a few times in the US but I am still waiting for success with those two subspecies. I think my only "first" in the herp hobby was hatching eggs from a wc gravid Scarlet Snake 15 years ago. AFAIK this snake has never been captive bred successfully and eggs from WC gravid ones have only been hatched a few times since I did it. There really is a lot of pioneering for someone who wants to try different species that have not yet been captive bred.
Jeff

>>Poor little boa (little? lol!) mustache must have scared her. LOL
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>>All joking aside, great picture Jeff. Nice to finally put the mug with da man.
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>>Hugs!
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>>Amanda Rose - amanda was not making fun of jeff, amanda thinks jeff rocks the freakin' boa world. Hats off to such a great pioneer.

you still are one heck of a great boa breeder and very personable. There are way too many breeders that are concerned solely about the $$ figures and not about their animals.

Besides, because of you, I learned of kingsnake.com AND I learned how to properly care for my very first snake...Mystyx, my columbian rainbow boa. Trust me, she definitely thanks you for your help. haha!

Hugs!

Amanda Rose

>>>Thank you to all of you for the nice and fun comments. This is a great forum because we all seem to like each other. We may have different ideas about how to do things and how to take care of our snakes but we can all learn from each other. Let's see some some more people PICs so we can figure out who to watch out for at the shows. I have table 426 at the Daytona show in august and hope to see some of you there. I will probably be doing a couple of other smaller shows here in the southeastern states this summer. I am going hiking in the Smoky mountains for the next week. My daughter will be checking on the snakes.
Cheers,
Jeff

>>..This PIC was taken at Kreatures and Koi, a really nice reptile and koi shop here in Savannah GA. Thad Deppen runs the store and does a great job with it. Thad is a very bright teenager and he has successfully bred Leopard Geckos and BPs and Burms. He also has lots of eggs in the incubator now. The snake in this PIC with me is an unhappy Colombian Boa almost 9 feet long.
>>Jeff
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Jeff,
LA is on the 'western' side of southeastern states, but still southeastern - any chance you are coming through?

The reputation is there, if I had a chance, a male from you would be the obvious choice (bar-none) to pair with my female.
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To All,
I will take some pics of my little girl soon to show her growth and progress...

On another note - yesterday a fun state law was passed stating that all non-indigenous constrictors require permits!

Yaye, fun, yipee, woohoo - (as you can tell I love ignorant people!) Go government! Legalize guns - condemn mother nature!

Seriously - if any of you can help, the Louisiana Gulf-Coast Herpetological Society is trying hard to flex all of its educational muscle to make the permits only 'for specimens exceeding 12 feet'.

www.lgchs.org

Thanks for reading
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-Iman
1.1 Sugar Gliders (Gizmo and Nema)
1.0 Ball Pythons (Spot)
0.1 Guyanan BCC (TBA)
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow (TBA)

Loving to Learn
Learning to Help
Helping to Love

Stimulate debates, stifle arguments.
Please be nice always.



Imans House of Herps

just so you know your not alone with the facial hair check my pic above...LOL
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0.1 Leos
1.1 Corn snakes (1 Lav & 1 Ghost)
0.1 Banan California King
0.0.1 Childrens python
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow boa
1.0 Rat (as pet not food)
1.2 Ball pythons (1pastel 2 normals)
"whats with you and all those dang reptiles?"