Todays Repticon pickup

All of my other snakes are Ball pythons but I just could not stop myself from getting this girl today.

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Great pick up there,sunglows are so nice congratulations think you gonna love a boa


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Originally Posted by richardhind1972

Great pick up there,sunglows are so nice congratulations think you gonna love a boa


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I had 2 adult boas probably 10 yrs ago. What I love about them is that they never seem to refuse feed LOL. Of course that would come from a ball python person.

At least you will have a dustbin that will appreciate the cast offs lol


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At least you will have a dustbin that will appreciate the cast offs lol


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Very true.

Such a lovely new noodle, congratulations have you picked a name out yet?

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Such a lovely new noodle, congratulations have you picked a name out yet?

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I have not picked a name. Always open to suggestions since I have no other boas and no intentions of breeding them. She was bought for a pet and pets should definately have a name.

How about Greek goddess Eos the name means dawn 😊 kind of fitting maybe

Congratulations and welcome to the boa club :D :gj:

Congrats! Got my first BCI (a Ghost - Hypo/Anery), a female (Behira), about 7 months ago. She's doing great and I adore her.

Sounds like you've had Boa's before, but there are quite a few Boa peeps (some who have already commented here) on BP.net. We are all here to help.

Beautiful girl. We were originally looking at Sunglow BCI's, but ended up with Behira the Ghost. She's unlike anything else I have and is the absolute sweetest girl (unless food is involved - LOL - but you already know what your getting into there :)).

Good luck and keep us in the loop!

Very nice, congratulations and best of luck. What a beauty.

Less than 24 hour here and she took her first meal from me. I understand that Boa's arent like Balls and feed most of the time. Just had to do a video to my youtube of her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3PeCEVQf5k

Well, after the end of feeding day, one of the Balls refused (big shock I know ). I had a left over FT weaned rat. The one she took in the video was a pup. Re-warmed the head of the weaned with hair dryer and this one happily took it too. She is very content and plump as of this morning. Just hanging out on the warm end of the tub. The rat pup in the video, she just pulled out of the hemostats without coiling around it but the weaned one, she went after full bore and coiled it before starting to eat.

Gratz! I love boas.

Beautiful pickup! I'm getting the BOA itch as well after owning my 1st BP. I'm craving a little more personality and size which leads me to a very beginner question. I'm not interested in a large BOA (>6 feet) so how do you know which BOAs to focus on? I've read where you should inquire about the parents but if I'm just window shopping that doesn't seem reasonable. Are there any descriptors I should keep an eye open for?

That’s BEAUTIFUL!! I REALLY want a Sunglow so bad, their colors are so bright. Anubis is like any other Boa a garbage disposal lol. But I feed her on the very small side, she’s at 440g I think last I weighed her and got a weaned rat because of a refusal. So come July I’ll be torn between a GTP and Boa lol


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There's some nice dwarf locality Boas, that won't reach 5ft if you get them from a reputable breeder so you know there pure
Put dwarf Boas into Google and
should give you a good list
El Salvador,cay caulker,hog island, Nicaraguan,corn island Nicaragua. Tarahumara, leopard Boas Sonoran boa
,This may help

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Originally Posted by richardhind1972

There's some nice dwarf locality Boas, that won't reach 5ft if you get them from a reputable breeder so you know there pure
Put dwarf Boas into Google and
should give you a good list
El Salvador,cay caulker,hog island, Nicaraguan,corn island Nicaragua. Tarahumara, leopard Boas Sonoran boa
,This may help

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Thanks for the response. I've been looking at Hog Islands but was trying to expand my search. So if I stick to a male, I assume a dwarf boa will reach around 5ft and a non dwarf would be how long ??? And is this difference in size a game changer in terms of enclosure size, food and handling?? I'd like to use an enclosure around the size of an AP10, stay on rats and only need one person to handle.

Thats OK,the male's are generally smaller,ive got a 7ft male albino jungle bci who is 7, but generally an exception my other albino is 6ft and nearly 10, but my male motley is not 5ft and 4, so depends but the male Hoggs shouldn't be over 6ft, both my female Nicaraguan amd corn island nice are nearly 3 and only just over 4ft
I'm not sure about the viv you was on about as we don't use them in the UK, we normally use wooden vivs and my adults are in 6x2 x2
The tarahumara don't really get over 4ft and nor do the cay caulker most leopard s are under 5ft too

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She is adding a bit of size. It is enough to tell and as you know, seeing them every day, we dont usually really see the growth rate like others do. She is 442 grams now.

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Looking good, really glad she's settled for you so well

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Thanks man. The only issue I have had with her was that I did end up seeing a VERY few mites. Thank goodness for quarantine. She continued right on feeding during treatments (which are not finished yet) but I have not seen another one on her or on the unprinted newspaper substrate in a couple weeks. I have probably only killed about 6 or so adults then maybe a dozen or so tiny ones that looked to have just hatched with subsequent treatments. I figure 2 or 3 more weeks of treatments and if I still haven't seen another dead baby mite by then, she may get to come into the room with the rest of them. I think that I caught them very early on.

I’m trying for the life of me to convince my husband to let me get one lol [emoji23]🤣


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I’m trying for the life of me to convince my husband to let me get one lol [emoji23]🤣


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I love this one more than any of my Ball pythons, there is just so much more personality to the Boa.