Blacktail Cribo questions

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Originally Posted by RoseyReps

Cribo means snake. Slang term, hopped the pond from Africa with the slave trade.

Boom.

Well...you didn't specify that it had to be BEFORE you gave us the answer :P

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Exactly what I was trying to say. I just got wordy. LoL! :D

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Originally Posted by Skiploder

Clelia, pseudoboa, spilotes, and drys (and others) are all referred to as cribos. A cribo/creebo is nothing more than West Indian slang for "snake". The first "cribo" I ever bought was a mussurana

If you were to go to Grenada or most other Caribbean islands that have large colubrids and asked to see a cribo, God only knows what species they'd show you.

The term comes from Africa and made its way to the Americas with the slave trade.

So the term is not exclusive to drys.

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I think I should get rep points for effort............ :P

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Originally Posted by Skiploder

Yes, throughout their range there is a variance in tail color. At some point, we started calling the pale tails unicolors and started charging more money for them. Because cribos breed like rats, in a few years these precious unicolors will be as cheap as any other cribo.

Then we will breed ones with two eye markings only to others with two eye markings and so on and so on.

Fortunately, Mother Nature isn't as crass.

I usually sell my female for $350 and my males for $275.

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When do you expect babies?

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Originally Posted by Neal

When do you expect babies?

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Next summer.

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Originally Posted by Skiploder

Next summer.

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Sounds good, I'll have my decision long before then.