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This is one of my favorite Red-Tails. Very clean, a light yellow/white body color with a blue undertone. I had been told that she looked Ecuador and I belived it since she had the lighter color of some of the best boas from that area. I finally tracked down the original seller to see if this was true, turns out he bought her from Bill Parks at a show in 01/02 as an Iquitos Peruvian. For me that made her a definate stand-out. I've never seen an Iquitos with such light color. I plan to breed her to my White Pucallpa male in the 05 season, should be awesome. If you have any opinions on this female and this pairing, good or bad, I would be happy to hear them. I'm going to have to post multiple pics on this one so bear with me.
Thanks-
Matt Schubarth
Pet Nebula
2100 Stephens #116
Missoula, Montana 59801
406 541 9929

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10 total "tail" blotches, and one saddle that is too misformed to be counted.

Hi there.

Very nice indeed both boas are.

Questions:

I have seen a few people using the same material as substrate, but never thought to ask what is that and can you tell me more on it, like details of what it is made of, safetey on animals, costs, suppliers and pros/cons on its use and so on?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Cya...

Tony Pharosx

Its a recycled newspaper substrate. I usually use aspen but I ran out the week before last and all I had left in the shop was carefresh. I kinda had a thing against it at first but I figured I'd give it a try. The customers I have that use it, normally for rodents, swear by it. It is moderately more expensive than aspen. But I know, at least with the rodents, it stays fresher longer than any other substrate. It does have all the same benifits of aspen with reguards to asorbency, making spot cleaning easy. But for that same reason, its best to use in well ventilated enclosures- it has done better in my Visions than my sweater boxes. Although, the only areas I've had problems with are near the water bowl, some humidity build-up underneath the bowl. So far during feeding I clear off a spot so that my boas don't eat any of it while swallowing a rat. Even though it doesn't stick to the boa's mouth like other substartes, its still an area of concern. No chemicals or oils. All-in-all, I will continue to use Carefresh as well as aspen until I figure which one is better. I hope this helps and if you come to any other conclusions with this subtrate, I'd be happy to hear them.
Later-
Matt Schubarth
Pet Nebula
2100 Stephens #116
Missoula, Montana 59801
406 541 9929