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This guy is a lot more pink and purple than the pic shows. BTW, I haven't sexed this five week old snake, but I'd bet $100 it's a male. Know how? The pic gives you all the information you need.

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I see such awesome boa's such as that.Better than ACID.Anyway,the tail is super long and tapers down,also is that a big ol spur.

it just looks like a male...

Usually when we talk about the “tail” we are actually referring to the tail blotches which extend well into the body. Actually the tail is from the vent to the end. This is an important distinction, as I am soon going to post a picture of an amarali (short-tail boa) that has red tail blotches extending well into its body. But it has a short tail (scale counts confirm that it is indeed BCA not BCC).
Anyway, back to this snake. The number of red tail blotches is a pretty good indication. I have found that in a given litter males tend to average one more blotch than females, and precious few female BCCs have this many tail blotches. But this alone would only cause me to bet $25, not $100. CE is right, except I don’t put much stock in shape on a snake this young, as they go through radically varying stages of hydration in the first few weeks. The vent is located between the fifth and sixth white bands (counting up from the tip of the tail). You can tell because the white side stripe is broken in half and each half points down to either side of the vent. This is very common in laddertail animals. Even in laddertails with a solid white stripe going down the side, the stripe will end pointing down at the vent. So you can see that this guy has an enormously long tail, and though not all male BCCs have a tail this long, no females do. Just a little fun trivia, from the king of useless information.

Here's a laddertail male with the white side stripe ending at, and pointing to, the vent.

that snake right there is the one that sold me on the surinams.. i used to keep and breed colombians.. just regular pretty colombians and one day some jerk itroduces me to your site and i saw "THAT" freakin animal and that was it !! lol

TRULLY AMAZING !!! i have seen quite a few surinams but that one right there did it for me
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NO BEAUTY LIKE THE BEAUTY OF A TRUE REDTAIL !!

He's the father of the one I posted on Monday.

the title of the thread is "now heres some tail" ... i def see the resemblance .. just amazing !! i dunno what else to say !!
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NO BEAUTY LIKE THE BEAUTY OF A TRUE REDTAIL !!

There is so much great info shared in this forum which can't be found anywhere else. Also, how many of us are constantly disappointed by the terrible pics of terrible looking animals in every book we pick up which are supposed to represent what boas look like. Very few people are aware that boas can be as beauitiful as Barry's, CE's, Mike Eckert's, and the long list of people who post here. Hopefully, someday someone will write a book with detailed info on breeding the different subspecies, address issues like how and why boas change shade and include many of he pics I see here every day. Would love to do it myself but it may have to wait until I retire which isn't any time soon. ----------RON