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Hey everyone. I have lots of corns and milks and balls and boas but i have never had a rosy boa. I found someone selling babies locally on craigslist for $30 a pop and figured why not. Very cool snake and very calm and loves to eat. I was aware of the mexican and california types of rosy's but i didnt realize there were so many types. I was told she is a bay of LA. What do you think?

Very cool looking snake

Congrats, that's a great looking boa.
Yeah, there is a HUGE variety of rosy boa localities and morphs.
You'd probably find the rosy image project to be useful. 700 images of rosys from 100 different localities or morphs.
Bay of LA (also called Bahia de Los Angeles), is the first group on this page:
http://borderboas.com/localityrosys/Mexican/index.html
Enjoy!
Josh
Rosy Image Project

Yeah, I've got a pair of Bay Of LAs. That looks like a really nice clean one, and $30 is a good price. Be careful Rosies can be addicting. Check out all the different flavors on www.borderboas.com.

reako45

John,
Bays are solid rosies. I had some I raised up. The female got quite large and was not trustworthy during early Spring when she fed voraciously. After Spring she was fine to hold. That started after about 2 -3 yrs of age.

Very tough, strong snakes, can handle captivity just fine.

My advice is to feed when they are hungry. Rosies are quite self-limiting. They are not like kingsnakes which will keep eating. Rosies will feed when hungry and will turn their nose when not. More like boa constrictors in that regard.

Bay of LAs can vary a bit as far as brightness of the stripes, per usual for rosies. There are some quite stunning BofLAs out there, brighter than most but hard to come by.
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Mark

"Bay of LAs can vary a bit as far as brightness of the stripes, per usual for rosies. There are some quite stunning BofLAs out there, brighter than most but hard to come by."

And that is one of the coolest things about rosys... there's tons of variety, and everyone has different tastes.
Bay of LA's can be crazy screamin orange, all the way to the super dark triv triv looking melanistics... and their all awesome.

Agree. The local variability is very intriguing to me. Probably anyone who likes rosies feels that way.

Luckily for me, I can drive through a few different habitats in one afternoon where the rosies will look different. I am not a great locator of rosies, but then again I don't have to be. Enough CB representatives of those locales are around to wet my whistle. I just like climbing rocky hillsides, great exercise
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Mark