Boa Constrictors!

jboyzboas · June 15, 2021, 2:51am

My latest pick up. So happy to have her!

gem · June 17, 2021, 4:04am

Hahaha, that was exactly my first thought, what’s not top notch about B imperator?!

Side note: To me it’s a shame the Leopard gene caused Boa sigma to get hybridized with B imperator so thoroughly before the taxonomy was clear. (I’m not a scientist, maybe it still isn’t settled) It is a darn shame for both of those species. Entirely and only my opinion, of course.

I think the wild types of all Boa species, subspecies and insular island populations alike are among the most beautiful snakes, full stop.

tommccarthy · June 22, 2021, 10:04pm

Beautiful boas everyone. Here are a few of my boas.

Take care
Tom

lumpy · June 22, 2021, 10:06pm

Wow I love boas

tommccarthy · June 22, 2021, 10:08pm

This is my favorite hypo jungle het albino.

lumpy · June 22, 2021, 10:09pm

Wow that is a real red one!

tommccarthy · June 22, 2021, 10:10pm

Here are my two new ones I just added to my collection.

lumpy · June 22, 2021, 10:16pm

Is that dark one is motley right?

tommccarthy · June 22, 2021, 10:35pm

Yes she is a Motley Jungle het albino. And she was born 5/19/21

dsed · June 24, 2021, 11:35pm

So many nice boas in this thread! Here’s a few from September of 2020 to now.

tommccarthy · June 25, 2021, 1:46am

Love the pattern on your Suriname in the first picture.

lumpy · June 25, 2021, 2:55am

It is so clean and contrasty

dsed · June 25, 2021, 9:40am

Thanks @tommccarthy and @lumpy looking forward to picking up a nice male this season.

lumpy · June 25, 2021, 8:44pm

I am think that a BCC might be next for me. I love boas

dsed · June 25, 2021, 11:26pm

I really do have a fascination and love for boas of all morphs but the suriname has always been a favorite of mine.

lumpy · June 25, 2021, 11:26pm

I was thinking a Suriname or a Peruvian personally. It was truly I was going for large boa.

dsed · June 25, 2021, 11:32pm

Both great choices but in my experience my Peruvians were a bit nippy and very nervous when handling. After years of handling they mellowed out but I was still hesitant with them around other people. Surinames have been more mild mannered especially captive bred. Now I’m sure there are plenty of amazing Peruvians but that was my personal experience. I’d own another for sure. Im pretty biased though, lol. Same with fish when we had reef tanks. My pride and joy was our purple tang so when others asked for a recommendation I’d ofcourse say purple tang. Honestly though, you can’t go wrong with any BCC.

lumpy · June 25, 2021, 11:54pm

Maybe one of each

But all seriousness I’ll probably end up getting a surname plus some morphs types for trying to get into breeding them (IMG Motley Sterlings one day)

dsed · June 26, 2021, 12:09am

Ha, ha! We think a like lumpy.

lumpy · June 26, 2021, 12:27am

That is a good thing! One of my true dreams is to breed snakes as a hobby so hopefully that dream comes to fruition.