Re: Considering a Red Tail
If the red tail is most important to you, I'd consider a BCC locality boa. The columbian BCIs tail tends to brown/black out as they get older. I personally really like the Pervuians and the surinames. Rio Bravo Reptiles has some really nice locality boas.
Re: Considering a Red Tail
BCC's do have some of the best color retention.
Here is a baby BCI we have offered up:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11...76/bcibaby.jpg
They are nice snakes.....they do tend to be a bit nippy, but most can be calmed down alright.
Re: Considering a Red Tail
nippy really???
all my boas are the calmest snakes i know if i were you i would go with a suriname red tail = ]
Re: Considering a Red Tail
Yeah a few of the big gals are really really nippy and most of the juvies are for a while.....they seem to get over it after a time but they dont duck and cover like a ball does....LOL
Sarinames are very nice also!
Re: Considering a Red Tail
I would not go BCC your first boa.....thats just me.
Get a clean BCI, it will be your best friend for 40 years!
Re: Considering a Red Tail
Here are my three Bci's. They are much more forgiving of husbandry errors than are Bcc's. They come in all sorts of colors and are just great snakes:
These two pictures are of my Bci pastel:
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...0/DSCN5986.jpg
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...0/DSCN5989.jpg
Here's my straight up Bci Columbian:
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...0/DSCN5994.jpg
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...0/DSCN5995.jpg
And here's my salmon Bci:
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...0/DSCN5998.jpg
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...0/DSCN6002.jpg
As you can see, lots of beautiful choices without the stress of husbandry exactness and without the feeding issues that sometimes arise with the Bcc's.
Just my thoughts.... :)
Re: Considering a Red Tail
I completely agree with both Starmom and Pat, if this is your first boa go with a really nice BCI. They are much more forgiving husbandry wise, and a great way to start out.
There are many different gorgeous morphs out there. I got my BCI female from Jimi. She is a normal. Parents are Salmon x Normal.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...n/DSCF4866.jpg
Re: Considering a Red Tail
Re: Considering a Red Tail