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im really ingterested in venezeualian and guayana forms...

i forget which ssp this si, but it looks amazing:

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2.3 kenyan sand boas (albino, anery het snow, normal)
0.6 ball python
1.3 brazillian rainbow boa
0.1 colombian rainbow boa

Well, I keep cuban boas (Epicrates angilufer) as well as my brazilian rainbows.



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/ Andreas

Andreas,
...Great PICs. Your Cubans look very healthy. Did you get babies out of that breeding?
Jeff

>>Well, I keep cuban boas (Epicrates angilufer) as well as my brazilian rainbows.
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>>/ Andreas

Not just yet, it's around 100 days since I last saw them copulating.
But the female is off food and pretty swollen so I confident that shes carrying something inside.
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/ Andreas

jlogan,
....The snake in the PIC is difficult to identify. Location data would make identification easier. The stripes on the sides of the neck are like Epicrates cenchria assisi but the rest of the body has too much pattern and color to be assisi. Many of the Rainbow Boas that I have seen exported from Guyana also have those stripes on the sides of the neck but they also are not as patterned or colorful as that snake. Patrick Fabelhaver lives in Venezuela and has shown some photos of snakes captured in Venezuela that look somewhat like that snake. The Guyana Rainbow Boas and the Rainbow Boas from Venezuela that look like that snake have not been given subspecific status though they obviously deserve to be identified as distinct subspecies of Epicrates cenchria. The two recognized subspecies of Epicrates cenchria with ranges into Guyana and Venezuela are the nominate subspecies, the Brazilian Rainbow Boa Epicrates cenchria cenchria and the Colombian Rainbow Boa Epictrates cenchria maurus. It was initially thought that the unidentified Rainbow Boas from Guyana and Venezuela were naturally occurring intergrades of those two subspecies but they do not look much like captive produced crosses of cenchria and maurus.
Jeff Clark

>>im really ingterested in venezeualian and guayana forms...
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>>i forget which ssp this si, but it looks amazing:
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>>2.3 kenyan sand boas (albino, anery het snow, normal)
>>0.6 ball python
>>1.3 brazillian rainbow boa
>>0.1 colombian rainbow boa

Is that specimen from Brazil? I think it is Epicrates cenchria crassus

Ricardo,
...You may be right. It very well could be crassus if it is from as far south as southern Brazil. The stripes on the side of the neck and the short stout head and stout body and brownish color on the sides are all very crassus like. But, most crassus photos I have seen have been less colorful than that snake. David Fabius in Uraguay says he sees much variation in the southern subspecies like we see in the more commonly imported ones from the northern part of the range so it would not surprise me if that is a crassus that is more colorful than typical. Location data would help with the ID.
Jeff

>>Is that specimen from Brazil? I think it is Epicrates cenchria crassus