long story short: i had two pastel ball pythons, one male and one female. after raising the female from a hatchling for 2 years i discovered she was actually a male ( ). worked out a deal with a friend of mine to trade him for a hatchling female pastel he had just gotten. met friend at a show this past weekend, friend's hatchling also turned out to be male. gaaaah!

so anyhow, they weren't selling at the show i was at so i ended up talking with alan bosch and trading them both for a male bolivian amarali boa. this is my first boa and i'm already in love! i have to say though--he is a squirm worm! how in the world i am supposed to make him sit still for a photo is beyond me, so i only managed to get these rather terrible shots.

his belly is SO pink and a lot of the pink is creeping up his sides.








his sister has a full stripe down her back so maybe, just maybe, he is het for something stripey. (photo taken at the show.)