stunning boa photo

Could somebody post a picture of an adult snow boa then? I'm wondering about the

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big yellow snakes

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part of the deal.

Here are some pics from Pete Kahl's site...he was the first to produce snow boas.

http://pkreptiles.com/images/boas/snow/snow_03.jpg
http://pkreptiles.com/images/boas/snow/snow_05.jpg

As you can see, they take on a creamy yellow color as they grow.

K

Even still, its a beautiful snake........to me anyways.

Wow, that's still a really nice color.

I think I'd like the albino red tails if the red part stayed a nice dark red.

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Yep...they look great while they're little. ;)

K

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As all colombians. :cry:

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Actually not true - I've seen some real "ugly duckling" Colombians that turned into gorgeous snakes as adults surprisingly enough. Blanket statements with reptiles "usually" don't work. ;)

On this, I was referring to how snow boas start out as white & lavender babies & turn into big yellow snakes as they mature, since there hasn't been a truly (proven) axanthic boa bred into the snow projects yet.

K

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95 percent of Colombians fade into a darker color :shock:

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Yep...they look great while they're little. ;)

K

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As all colombians. :cry:

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Actually not true - I've seen some real "ugly duckling" Colombians that turned into gorgeous snakes as adults surprisingly enough. Blanket statements with reptiles "usually" don't work. ;)

On this, I was referring to how snow boas start out as white & lavender babies & turn into big yellow snakes as they mature, since there hasn't been a truly (proven) axanthic boa bred into the snow projects yet.

K

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95 percent of Colombians fade into a darker color :shock:

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Interesting. Most of the time they start as grey babies & grow into a buckskin or tan color. If you call that darkening, ok. I call it an ontogenetic color change.

Granted, we each have our own opinions, but I'll take a light buckskin colored animal, or a tan snake with peach highlighting over a little grey nondescript baby any day.

How many boa babies have you raised to adulthood?

K

Zero, yet the fact still remains that they do change color.
What's buckskin colored to you ... is poo colored to me. :shock:

I'd take a grey shaded colombian over a brown any day.
If we could all leave our day jobs, and do what you do ... We would trust me :P

lol its true, my colombian has already started to go a darker colour, still beatifull to me!

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lol its true, my colombian has already started to go a darker colour, still beatifull to me!

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Yeah, personally I don't care what color they get ...
Still the same lovely snake as you had as a baby.

My point was just that most if not all colombians change color.

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I'd take a grey shaded colombian over a brown any day.

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Check out this little one - so far, no color change. Her base coloration is a pearly gray-white in person...hard to catch on a digital.

http://newenglandreptile.com/webpics/whiteboa1.jpg

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If we could all leave our day jobs, and do what you do ... We would trust me :P

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Whatever that means. :roll: :roll: :roll: :wink: