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im getting these two boas, and the question was brought to me the actuality of them being viper boas. they seem a little skinny, but not too bad. butthe head shape and general build was questioned... what do you think?

i know its kinda a bad pic

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the male is about a foot and the female is about 8"
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i ment tree boa. /
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Boy its hard to tell but looking at the tail they might be Vipers(I think) The Tree and Ground boas tend to be kind of slender till they get bigger. The Vipers have a fat over stuffed sausage look to them. The tail is extremely short compared to the Ground and Trees. There are differences in the head shape between the three. The ground boas have a beveled snout and pronounced ridge running from the snout to the eye. I think the body structure would be evident in the babys although I have only raised some ground boas.If you would like there is a Candoia group on Yahoo also. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pacificislandboas
Randy

I agree. There is not enough tail for these to be tree boas. A better picture would be a lot of help, but from what I am looking at, I think the male looks like a SIGB and the female looks like a viper boa. But they are definetly ground boas, either SIGB or viper.

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