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I checked some old baby pictures of the father, his tail was black. I can't wait to see what these will do over time! By the way, I like these "busy" patterns. Since I've been keeping boas people have been trying to tell me what is beautiful, and I suppose that's some of the fun. But the fact is, once you start trying to define beauty, you start destroying it. All of a sudden an animal which used to appear beautiful doesn't measure up because it has some speckles or a broken saddle or it doesn't have big enough "peaks" or whatever. I believe that you don't need criteria, you just have to look at them. I think that we all intuitively know what is good and what is beautiful, and to an amazing extent agree when we are not caught up in criteria, definitions, and politics. So anymore when people try to tell me what constitutes a beautiful boa I just try to smile, ten minutes in my snake room and they might well be changing their tune.


Miller Reptiles

So true Barry. Beauty is so subjective. Part of the reason I became an academic biologist is because, to me, beauty lies in the diversity of the organisms we see. If all boas or organisms for that matter were to be measured to an ideal type, like Plato's forms, what fun would it be exploring nature where nothing ever measured up to our own ideal?

Anyway...down to business, when are your suris going on sale!

Cheers,
Gabriel Gartner

I like to make sure the BCC and BCA are well started, and I don't give them their first meal until they are one month old. All of my babies have now eaten at least once, but I would like to see them have at least one more meal each. So, my guess is about two to three weeks by the time I get pictures taken, etc.

great thread !!! and like the other person in this thread posted , when do these guys go up for sale
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NO BEAUTY LIKE THE BEAUTY OF A TRUE REDTAIL !!

Gut instinct...whatever you want to call it. You know when it hits you. Makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck sometimes. Sensory overload to the point of euphoria on occasion. It's kind of like falling in love, even. You can't explain it but you can't ignore it. THAT'S what defines beauty to me. Doesn't fall under ANYONE'S stereotype of a "beautiful boa" or any other snake for that matter. If I'm not mistaken, it's what got a lot of us into the herp thing in the first place.

Just my $.02...

K

>>I checked some old baby pictures of the father, his tail was black. I can't wait to see what these will do over time! By the way, I like these "busy" patterns. Since I've been keeping boas people have been trying to tell me what is beautiful, and I suppose that's some of the fun. But the fact is, once you start trying to define beauty, you start destroying it. All of a sudden an animal which used to appear beautiful doesn't measure up because it has some speckles or a broken saddle or it doesn't have big enough "peaks" or whatever. I believe that you don't need criteria, you just have to look at them. I think that we all intuitively know what is good and what is beautiful, and to an amazing extent agree when we are not caught up in criteria, definitions, and politics. So anymore when people try to tell me what constitutes a beautiful boa I just try to smile, ten minutes in my snake room and they might well be changing their tune.
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Just because I have a short attention span doesn't mean