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I'd Appreciate Some Suggestions Please...
As most of you know my middle two children are saving up/getting the grades to get their own personal snakes. Beth has reached her goal and will shortly get her female Albino Nelson's Milksnake then start saving for the male het for albino she'd like to go with it.
Luke, who is 14, has decided he'd like to have as his goal a much bigger snake. He is currently getting exposed to that with having Rauri the BCI here being fostered. Now all things considered, and knowing he won't be solely responsible for this snake at this point...what would be a few options to consider.
He likes the look for Rauri, but most importantly the nice temperment. He likes larger, heavy bodied boas but not something that will get perhaps as big as Rauri at maturity. We'd like something that is financially reasonable (he has to save 1/2 the cost of his snake plus get a decent grade average), as well as a boa that won't get over 6 feet tops (he'd like a male), has a good history of captive breeding so we aren't getting stuck with a WC baby, has care requirements that are something we could handle with our basic experience with the BCI.....
I know sounds like the "perfect boa" I'm looking for LOL. There's just so many options out there and we have lots of time (months) before we'd consider this purchase I'd like to start lining up ideas from experienced boa people and give Luke some options to look at and do research on. I don't want to just wildly google and then have to say no over and over to boa's that aren't really all that appropriate for a 14 year old young man to handle as his first "personal" snake.
He does like our royals but is just crazy over Rauri and really wanting to work hard to have his own boa when he's ready (and we're ready to back him up with it of course).
~~Jo~~
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Re: I'd Appreciate Some Suggestions Please...
How about a Hogg Island? They tend to stay on the smaller end as I recall. I'm sure if he has help looking after it, it would be a good choice
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Re: I'd Appreciate Some Suggestions Please...
Hogg Island was my first thought too...or another smaller boa like nicaraguans And possibly dumerils boa too.
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Re: I'd Appreciate Some Suggestions Please...
Many of the island boas stay pretty small (Hogg's for instance). If you check out RioBravoReptiles.com, he has a lot of information about locality boas, their care, and how big they'd get. If you have any questions, Gus would be more than willing to help you out... he knows his boas
And, as always, I'd check out Clay's site, redtailboas.com. He has some truly beautiful animals, as well as a full caresheet. I believe he even has some Hogg crosses for sale right now, and new litters will be coming here in a few months.
Jeff Ronne is also a good guy to talk to... he's been breeding boas forever... though I've heard he's been really hard to get ahold of lately. You can check out his website at The Boaphile.
Hope this helps... if you want other sources, I can get you some names of people that have really helped me out through Kinky and, now, Severus. Good luck!
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Re: I'd Appreciate Some Suggestions Please...
Dumerils get BIG.. males too! Over 7' 20lbs easy!
My hogg island female is 5.5' and can get bigger. I have seen 6' males.
My suggestions are pythons.
Jungle carpets.. babies can be nippy (true with many boids!) but usually tame easy. Beautiful reasonably sized pythons.
Sumatran short tail (black blood python) smaller than red bloods.. still a beefy animal. Gorgeous to boot.
Both of these animals need correct husbandry.. I assume you'd be helping your son care for the animal.
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