Hey everyone - I have been keeping all sorts of reptiles and snakes for about 20 years but I have recently decided to try my hand at breeding boas. I have been lurking and learning as much as possible for awhile now and figured it was time to join the community and post. My first female is about 5 years old, weighs 20 lbs, 86" long. I purchased her as a Junglow but I’m not convinced now that she is a bit older, what do you think (pictures below)?
I would say your male is not a motley or a jungle. He maybe het for albino because I don’t even see the hypo.
The second female looks like a sunglow but your first girl doesn’t, she looks albino. Can you post more pictures of the first girl, so we can help you ID her?
Thanks for the quick reply! Hopefully these load from my phone, if not I’ll snap some more later today. I do have another male normal and the guy I posted pictures of is much more brown, I’ll send some more of him as well.
Also, for the female I am not seeing jungle. Can you grab a picture over the top of her tail? One of the main ways you identify hypo is that the tail rings look jelly like.
Thank you. It will be interesting to see how the babies come out from the male. He looks completely different than my two normal males but I can’t pinpoint it, especially if they are not really showing well. Any ideas of what he may be?
I’ll have to take more photos of the female later and send them.
Yep, The overall coloration to him, bowtie saddles, uniform color of saddles and tail. I think it’s just due to experience why it stands out. My first hypo litter was back in 2006.
Your first female looks to be a sunglow to me. Would need a clear full over head body picture to be sure. Need to see all of her saddles and tail. Are you sure she is 5 years old? Looks older to me.
Male is a hypo boa. He is not a motley or jungle boa. Will not know if he is het albino until you breed him.
Other female is sunglow.
Also do you feed live food? All your boas have scars on there face. If so please try and see if they will eat frozen thawed food. It’s safer for your boas.
Also just so you know breeding boas sometimes will kill them. So if they are pets you may want to think twice about breeding them. Your first female is big enough to breed.
Thank you again for all of the feedback. I figured I had sunglows and no jungle or motley but I’m definitely not an expert. I’m really not sure what I’m looking for in a jungle.
I did not have the big one from a hatching so I am not positive on her age but that’s what I was told. That is also where most of the scars from, the person before me was feeding live. It took awhile to transition her away.
