some days I think these are really cool.. and then other days I just they look odd. I can't quite figure it out.
sorry about the color.. these pics were taken at night in my poorly lit kitchen.
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some imported suris - a little aberrant
patoquack
Feb 10, 2005 10:51 PM
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Trueredtails
Feb 11, 2005 08:58 PM
I think they look great. It looks like they will have a high contrast look to them. They look kind of like some adults I own, where did you get them and if you know where they were imported from? I guess I like the whole abberrant look in some suri's. In a few years they may color up well to a gold or orange color. They look like they could be siblings, if so maybe there abberant look could be some from of genetic striping? If they look cool to you then thats all that matters.
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True Redtails
patoquack
Feb 11, 2005 10:10 PM
I bought then from Ghi reptiles. they are siblings. I actually bought three of them - sold as 2.1 from the same litter. I don't always save my emails from sellers so I'm not certain I remember the correct story on these - but I believe they were born from a captive female that had been caught already gravid. of the thee I bought, one didn't make it. There was something wrong with his jaw and he had a really hard time eating. The boas appeared in great health when I received them and I am NOT NOT NOT implying anything against the seller. anyway the one had a hard time eating and I ended up euthanizing him after several months. whatever it was just got progresively worse. He would take the food item in his mouth but he couldn't manouver it to get it down. he would struggle with it for several hrs and then just give up. I was afraid to try force feeding because I was afraid I would just end up hurting him and make the jaw problem worse... even in the human environment, boas must surrender to the fate of natural selection..
but these two are doing well and are already taking adult mice. Their color has darkened up and I do like the high contrast to their pattern. It would be fun to breed these together or to a stripe suri I have. I'm not 100% sure of the sex of these two, but I'm hoping I ended up with 1.1 out of the three.
Patrick
