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I have a central american boa. What would I be able to breed her with? Are other central american varieties safe, or should i stay with a Central American Boa?

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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

oh no what do you mean?
Are you hoping to breed your boa to a Bird Eating snake or maybe a Central American Coral snake?
Your not looking to produce Boa Balls are you? If so see post below LOL.
If you mean other Boa Constrictor localities, then you could breed them to what ever you personally want and what you personally hope to accomplish by it. If you goal is simply to produce baby boas of no specific origin or color then yes it can be done with any BCssp. But to breed it for color or Morph would mean you would have to get a Boa with that specific triat.
I am not really sure what your question is, but the reality is that you BCI Boa will breed to just about any other BCssp, the real question is what you want to breed it to and why. If your breeding to breed with no real goal in mind then you will have a hard time selling the offspring from a generic Central Anerican breeding, the imports for them are grossly cheap, I saw jobbers moving them for less then $20.00 a head last season LOL.
Good Luck
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

It was a serious question. I found out today that she is colombian, not central american. i was hoping to breed with a hypo....just making sure it was safe/ethical.
thanks
hunter

Obviously this guy is asking a legit question. Lose the sarcasm and the grumpy attitude. It sucks! If you can't answer the question without all the garbage spewing from your almighty fingers then ignore it and move on!!!! I answered his question yesterday with a straight forward answer and I am not getting upset or ranting about the newbies. If you are tired of all the newbie questions, even dumb ones then move on to the next thread.

Brett Thacker

Brett,
I was kidding with Hunter about the mixing of the Boas and Python, making fun of my own post below. If you answered his question the post is not showing and you are not doing any service to the other new Herpers by not sharing the information.
If you think my answers from my almighty fingers suck, then don't read them and move on as you stated in your own advice, otherwise learn to take a joke. I was teasing him about the Boa Balls and also gave him the advice that he could breed his boa to what ever type of Boa Constrictor he wanted to, depending on what he wanted to accomplish.
If his goal (which really should be the goal of most first time breeders) is just to produce babies to gain the experience, then he should be told that the babies may not bring in a huge dollar return, but is still great experience. If he wanted to try to breed it to a morph Boa then he could be risking a high dollar snake to learn to bred on and a failure at that level might drive him from Herping due to the cost and time he put into his project vs the lack of return on it.
I did find his question confusing as he mentioned that he had a CA Boa and wanted to breed it to other CA varieties, but I assumed he meant other Localities from Central America. If you plan on answering a question in " a straight and concise manner" then post it so I don't think everyone is just ignoring this fella and no one else is willing to talk the time to answer his question (as was done to the young lady a few posts down with the Dums question on soaking).
As far as my attitude that sucks, you are very wrong, I have been helping and answering questions from Herpers for more then two decades. My post below (which the intent was obviously lost on you) was to encourage the new Herpers to ask question on care, husbandry and other aspects of Herping, not to discourage it. I was responding to the string of posts about people complaining about the same simple questions being asked over and over. To me that just means that more and more Herpers are coming into this hobby and that is a good thing and something that I like to encourage.
As far as the questions that do get to me, reread the post below. This time try it
S L O W L Y so you can get the meaning of it. The last comment about my almighty fingers, well if proper grammar and spelling (well spelling most of the time) is something you consider to be almighty so be it, I just consider it to be from education which gives me the ability to read all those books, which in turn provides more education, it is a vicious cycle and if done long enough causes one to learn!
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

By typing out SLOWLY are you implying that I am stupid? I hate to break it to you but your "humor" isn't very funny.

I read your rant the other day and you made some good points but your two decades of helping people doesn't mean anything when you insult people with your sarcastic answers/questions. I get your sarcasm and I have a great sense of humor but I try not to insult people that are trying to learn. It will shy them away from asking questions in the future.

I think it's great that you take your time to answer people's questions about husbandry,etc. However, read some of your posts over again and look at it from a newbies perspective. When you and I started out in reptiles there wasn't such things as computers...there is now. With that technology comes forums and with forums comes some questions that we might not welcome with a warm heart. I try not to let newbie questions about breeding morphs and trying to make a quick buck bother me. You need to separate those folks from the rest of them.

I for one just got back into keeping reptiles after about 8 years absence and I can understand the excitement about producing babies. I used to breed colubrids and that was very exciting watching them breed, lay eggs and hatch. Six months ago I was so anxious to get a large female Boa and breed it to the male I had just bought. Things have settled down(my being so anxious) and I am enjoying the 12 snakes that I have.

I don't know Hunter or his intentions but I have had some e-mail conversations and can sense his excitement with his snakes. I know the feeling and I know you know the feeling. I just didn't think your post was a very friendly one whether you were joking or not. I apologize for being a little too abrasive in my earlier post.

Take care-

Brett

Hunter,
Safe is an easy one. As long as you are providing proper care for them and they are of proper size and age, then yes it should be safe (as safe as breeding Boas ever is) to breed her to what ever you like. As far as ethical, that is your own decision. I personally beleive that if you do somehow ever manage the highly Sought after BoaBall Morph it would be ethical as long as you let your buyers know what there are. The only unethical part of breeding would be mixing a Suri with a Colombian and calling it either pure Suri or a Pastel Comobian without devulging the fact that it is a cross.
The breedings are not what make a breeder ethical, it is his honesty and service that does. So to answer your question (and I am trying really hard to hold back any form of humor at all on this one to make Brett happy) is yes you can breed it to a hypo which would be a good start. Hypos are not super expensive anymore and the babies can always be used to trade up to other Morph that you may become interested in.
Good Luck
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com