Unbeatable as far as books go. There are several photos from Gus Rentfro in that book and he and Vin are close friends.
Gus has so much info on these animals it's astounding, but sadly he is out of boas for the time being.
Vin has localities and morphs. Gus was strictly a locality breeder and sold his stock, at least a lot of it, to Legacy Reptiles. They work with locality BCs and recently with some morphs.
The choice will come down to what you like, but a pure locality of any form BCC, BCI, BCO, BCA is really special IMO.
This is already a year old. This is my Barranquilla, Colombian male.
A Gus Rentfro creation that I purchased from Legacy Reptiles.
In the book you are reading there is a special section on these boas. These are what a "natural cross" of BCC and BCI would look like in the wild.
Gus almost classed these as BCC for several reasons I'm told, but because he wanted 100+% validity they are BCI.
Far too many people just buy something, have no clue and end up playing catch up or dumping their animal down the road.
I like how you are going about this!
06-04-2015, 08:02 PM
Gerardo
I definitely want to be as prepared as possible before i take on that responsibility. I am looking forward to learning more about these awesome animals. Your boa looks super great. Hopefully i will have one of my own soon enough.
06-16-2015, 04:29 PM
Gerardo
I saw surinam bcc for sale for $169.99. Is that normal? I thought they went for something more like $600+
06-17-2015, 12:11 PM
JoshSloane
Re: Any recommendations?
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Originally Posted by Gerardo
I saw surinam bcc for sale for $169.99. Is that normal? I thought they went for something more like $600+
It all depends on if they are captive bred or harvested from SA. The big reptile distributors still field collect a lot of baby boas from suriname and Guyana. These are usually the ones that are cheaper in price. Breeders in the US that only produce specific genetic lines of BCC have boas ranging from 400-800$
