Why Can't I Find Any Red Tails For Sale?!

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Originally Posted by Bellabob

I've looked all over google and on breeders websites. There are barely any for sale and the ones that are for sale are waaayyyyy out of my price range. Is it not breeding season or something?

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Where are you located? What is your price range?

As I hinted in my post above. There are boas that lay eggs. Not from the boinae subfamilies, but a boa by any other name.

At least three erycine species lay eggs:

The Calabar Boa, (Calabaria reinhardtii) (once classified as a python for this reason)
The Arabian Sand Boa, (Eryx jayakari)
The West African Sand Boa, (Eryx muelleri).

The sub species are:
Eryx (Sand boas)
Gongylophis (Rough-tailed Sand Boa)
Charina (Rubber Boas)
Lichanura (Rosy boa)
Calabarinae (Calabar)

Jim Smith

I finally got frustrated and searched Craigslist, hoping I'd find a snake there - though it's usually the last place I look. I got lucky and found a reasonably priced, healthy baby RTB from someone who was scared of her because she's a little nippy still.

So you may have luck there if you can't find any elsewhere....but always be cautious getting any animal off of Craigslist.

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Originally Posted by jason79

Just in-case you didn't know boas give birth to live young they do not lay eggs.

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I'm sorry...:redface: I'm still new at this and that's what the guy told me, lol he probably was just poking fun at my newbieness. :P