2026 baby boas

Here are some new 2026 babies from my BCI female sunglow Ember and my BCC X BCI male hypo jungle het albino Mars. 16 babies and 6 slugs born around 3am today. Mom is a little weak as she stopped eating for me 3 to 4 months ago. She is getting a nice FT rat tonight with some extra vitamins in it. As you can see Mars has a strong jungle gene in him. Even Gracie wanted to check them out. :rofl:

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Congrats on the gorgeous litter, Tom!! Ember did such a good job, I hope she recovers quickly for you! I absolutely adore that stripey albino/sunglow in the 2nd to last image - do I smell a holdback? :winking_face_with_tongue:

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Beautiful pile of babies!

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Are you sure you don’t mean Bee”B”s? :wink:

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Congratulations Tom! That’s a big bunch of beautiful boa babies!!!:ok_hand::clap::+1::fire::wink:

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If it’s a male I probably will keep it.

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Here are some pictures after I gave them a bath today. They are getting more color to them every day now.

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Congratulations, Tom! Oh my goodness, they’re wonderful! I didn’t realize that boas had such large litters! It’s that usual or did Ember really excel in numbers?

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@caryl

I average 15 babies a clutch. Have had 25 to 36 babies before. I even had two big females many years ago that were 50 + lbs die with 55 babies in them.

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I had no idea! That’s really amazing. For some reason (or maybe no reason at all :upside_down_face:) I had it in my head that a typical litter was something like 6-10. Clearly I was very mistaken. I love learning new things. Thanks.

Congrats again!

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Here are a few of the babies that shed last night.

Here is this years striped sunglow jungle with last year striped sunglow motley jungle. They are a pair to. The big one is a female and the new one is a male.

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Another beautiful boa for the books. Love the comparison picture with the little guy and the bigger girl, and such nice color retention!

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Lovelies ALL of them Tom! So the little male in the last pictures is going to become a poppa with that beauty of a female boa?

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@caron

Yes Caron when she is 5 or 6 years old I will pair them up for breeding. Those two boas are only related by their father. Both have different mothers.

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Some more of the babies shed recently.

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Holy bleep are they beautiful!

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@tommccarthy absolutely LOVE the pattern on this one - the head stamp stretching into that first saddle looks so cool!

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@emfraise

His Northern Brazilian genetics really show in him. He is 25% NB. BCC and 75% BCI. Also het albino.

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I missed these babies earlier! Very lovely little batch of noodles. The BCC influence is definitely helping those albinos pop, and you can really see it in the older ones still retaining so much color.

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I was noticing that on several of the babies, it looks so cool! Love those peaked saddles too.

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