need help choosing what to get next...

now you mentioned sand boas before... any photos i can see? what are they like?

i'm so glad you don't mind me picking your brain but information from people who own a critter is just so much better sometimes that reading it off the net.

No problem.. I'm more than happy to share any knowledge I've stumbled upon.

I keep two species of sand boa. The kenyan, and roughscaled. They tame easily, and do not grow large at all. In fact, a male kenyan will stay small enough to be comfortable in a 10 gallon tank his entire life. A big female roughscale will perhaps attain 3'.

They are burrowers, so deep substrate is a must. I use aspen.

These are my two male kenyans. A normal (orange and black) and an anerythristic morph. There are also albino, snow, paradox albino/snow and flame morph kenyans.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...dboasapr06.JPG

My female roughscaled sand boa:

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...metermar06.JPG

my hubby just informed me that our local petstore has a kenyan sand boa for sale... and then i looked at the local breeder and it seems he does as well!

i've read you can keep a few together... now i frown on that thought... what's your thought?

I don't advocate keeping any snake together with another. Aside from stress issues, you have the problem of possible disease/parasite transmission, and difficulty figuring out which one is sick if that ever happens.

One snake per cage is a good rule.

ya that's exactly how i feel as well. thanks for confirming that with me. :)

so far... we are really liking the look of the RTB's still but i'm concerned about the super large enclosure it will need eventually (and it's not like it only lives a short time after all... we'll need the larger encl for many years!)

so i'm searching... again, on the net - relooking at all your suggestions from the first page of this thread and re-examining my options!

As a sand boa owner, I can't say enough how much I love my SB! She's very easy to hold, never tried to bite me, always been a GREAT eater and rather fun to watch her explore her tank at night. Here's a pic of my B&W SB, "Seraph".


http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/619/seraph0013uq.jpg

know anything about soloman ground boas? temperment etc.

oh wow, your sand boa is very pretty!!!

I love solomon island boas.. (anything candoia really) they stay small, but if you get one make sure it's a mouse eater, because it's hard to get hatchlings to eat anything but lizards.

I am not sure about temperament.. I think they're pretty mild mannered, but don't quote me on that. Here's a nice website on all candoia boas: http://www.kingsnake.com/candoia/

Whoever said rosies are boring, is full of BS!!!! I have a pair, and they are anything but!!! Kenyan sand boas are pretty and cute as well.....I actually DO have a m/f pair of these...babies.....but, am looking to sell them....too bad you don't live closer!!!!

well, i'd like to introduce you to my new addition... sandy!

http://www.timelessspirit.com/images...sandyapr06.jpg

i'm still planning on adding something else to our collection... as the hog island boas are sounding like a good idea too... but when i saw this baby at the petstore today... i couldn't resist. she (don't know the sex but have decided she's a girl LOL) had some shed left on her face... so i gave her a little steam bath when she got here... set her up in a 5 gallon tank with carefresh for bedding... and she seems quite content.

do i wait a week to feed her for the first time?

:D:D:D:D thanks to you all for your GREAT suggestions!!!

She's so cute! Give her a week to settle in and get comfortable and im sure she'll do great. Congrats!

Awwww....what a tiny little worm!! SO CUTE!!

hahaha she does look like a worm... i wonder what colour she'll be when she grows up? do they keep this colouring or morph?

From April's posting of pics a while back, I picked up an anery SB baby at the show last month. Mine has been eating a small mouse pinky every 4 days. The first once or twice was iffy, because Oreo didn't like the FT, but now she strikes and coils once it's in front of her nose.

I know she's hungry when she cruises the aspen on top. Otherwise, we only see her occasionally poking her head out. During the late night, I'll every once in a while look over to the tank and see her stuck on the wall. She's only used her hide once.

And yeah, we call Oreo a worm, because we can grow earthworms that are bigger and fatter than SHE is! :lmao:

The first few times I cleaned bedding, I had to be really careful that I didn't pick HER up too!! Once I couldn't find her, no matter how much I sifted and lifted bedding and thought she had escaped. She was actually scrunched flatter to the glass. *Whew*

Your new baby, Sandy is really pretty!!!! Congrats on your new family member!!!! :D :D :love:

Very pretty little one! Generally the color stays the same.. it may get a bit darker with age, but they hold color well typically.

You should see the itsy bitsy one I'm fostering.. she's quite a worm.. and she's actually grown some since I got her too. :)

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/sho...=3&userid=1428

she looks almost exactly the same as my little one... same size too :) what colour morph are ours?

Yours is a normal color. Very pretty though.

hey nothing wrong with normal... i could use more 'normal' in my life LOL

Very cool snake yea i almost bought a snake that looked like her new girl but i have heard they are hard to keep on feed schedule so im kinda tempted on choosing somthing else, what are you using for heat? Aaron

I have found nightcrawlers that are bigger than that! Very cute! Is she pretty tame so far? Well, regardless I'm sure a bite from her wouldn't do too much damage.:)

I've never been a huge boa fan with the exception of SBs and Hoggs. I love the looks of anery SBs! After all you SB owners posting those pictures I may have to add one to my list of what to shop for at the show.;)


Feel free to post more pictures!

Jason

right now just a heating pad, but i'll be picking her up a little uth when the petstore gets more in.

she is so darned cute and is eating like a champ! ate 2 live pinkies at her last meal! - she's a mere 3 months old and was at the petstore for 3 weeks (i know them all there really well so i get the honest scoop on stuff which is wonderful) eating like a champ the whole time.

my only concern was the shed still on her face... but that's off now! that nice sauna soak took care of it. she didn't enjoy it AT ALL but she didn't even attempt to bite/strike during the entire time. and considering a huge human was picking at her face with a towel... she did great!!!

oh i forgot to mention... the cutest thing about her... and the reason i brought her home... is because when she's in my hand... she nudges me, like she wants to nurse... it was so darned cute! you can tell she's a burrower by that behaviour but it just seemed so adorable i couldn't resist her!

i may be getting a hog island boa as well... just waiting for some answers from the local breeder. :D i'll keep you all posted!

he has some males available for $300 canadian (is that a good price???) they are 2005.

i'm hoping to go see them tomorrow :)

I don't know Canadian prices that well but it sounds reasonable. Normally on kingsnake I see babies for $150-200 US dollars of course. Have a look at the parents if you can.. to get a better idea of what the kiddies will look like. There are some ugly hog islands out there. :)

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Not OURS thought, right April!? ;)

okay. i'm pretty sure he has the parents as well since he breeds.

That should have been though not thought

ya we know jamie... the editor in me wanted to fix it for ya LOL but i refrained...

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It was early...for me..

7:21... man that IS early!!!

Actually it was 10:21 my time :) . You western Canadians....Not everything runs on Northern US..uhhh..Canada time! :)

well then what's so early about that??? man it's only 9:30 here right now!!!

Well it wouldn't normally be except that my downstairs neighbors decided to have a karaoke party last night. The music shook the entire building until about 2AM.

oh i have a neighbour who has them early sunday mornings in the summer... and they can't sing to save their lives!!! sounds like a wounded calf...


hahahahahaha hope your party goers could at least sing.

Not well! It was the bass that killed me. And the guy is good friends with my fiance. I had her call them and he apologized and said it was a birthday party. I think me having a bad headache just made it worse.

you THINK that having a bad headache made it worse? well let those thoughts be laid to rest my friend... i can 100% guarantee that it made it worse!!!

:D glad to be of service :D

Thanks doctor! :) Now get out there and get yourself a nice Hog Island Boa! See how I brought it back around?

waiting to hear from the breeder and it just now, this second dawned on me that they are probably celebrating easter... so he won't be having us over today LOL

as a pagan who celebrated ostara weeks ago... i forget about these other 'holidays'. oops!

Today is Easter!? As a Jew who celebrates nothing, it hadn't dawned on me. :)

Actually, I am well aware. My fiance is Christian and went to church today with her grandmother. She texted me during church that "he has risen". She obviously has problems :)

hahahahaha text messaging during church... makes me laugh.

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That HAS to make her a blasphemer or some sort of pariah on her religion, right? :banned1:

giggling... no just high tech! on spreading the word... no more door to door visits... :)

LOL hahahahahaha

Ahh..Spreading the word of god through text messages. I think you're on to something here..