Riddle me this...

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Originally Posted by JimiSnakes

I was right then? They are from the "red group"? Wow, lucky guess! lol. They are just a Pastel that EBV has "fine tuned" to produce intense reds throughout the snake's body. Nice looking Pastel line. SalmonBoa works with a few of them. I don't think they are smaller or larger than any other boas though. Maybe he's just a runt, lol. Didn't you say he was on only mice when you got him? Or was that someone else? Diet can really play a part with boas, if they are not fed large enough meals they can be "stunted" but with horrible side effects if done for too long.

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Yupp that's me, I adopted him a few days ago. He is no longer in a 20 long glass tank but in a 55g custom tank and I now have him on f/t med rats every 7 days instead of f/t large mice every 10-14 days.


EBV just got backed to me and confirmed he is one of their Red lines, the darker one in the pics is one of their first, and they blame the size on stunting and would be able to breed if I chose.

Cool. They are right. With adequate meals he should pack on the size, but may never be as big as he would have been otherwise.

Boa constrictor imperator. :)

Finally got my digi to work properly

http://api.photoshop.com/home_2345cc...e64a47c90bf112

I would agree, it is a red group. I own 2 and know a couple people that have been breeding them for years. The hard part with them is that some of them get nice red colors, while others darken up a bit with age. Kind of muddy looking but in person you can see the red in them. Another common thing to see in "red groups" is a reduced amount of speckling on the body. Since they do take some time to color up, most of the time you would hold back the cleanest, less speckeled of the offspring. Since those are more likely to end up with a more intense red color overall. Nice snake though.