Worst mis-identifications...

[BciJoe]

I used to do Boas for a long time and have switched over to BPs. So many more people are into them that I get constant offers and calls from locals asking if I want to buy theirs or trade.

Wondering what have been some of the worst mis-IDs you've been presented with, here are some of mine..


-One guy called me and said he wanted one of my balls and had found what he thought was a ball or a kenyan sand boa outside, and if i'd trade for it. Then he tells me it's actually a Kenyan Sand Boa, a Female, 5' long, with a clutch of eggs!
Sand boas don't get half that big, and don't lay eggs! So I was curious..
Turned out to be a 3' Eastern Mud Snake.

-One guy just yesterday says if I could ID his BP morph and trade for one of mine. Then he proceeds to send me pictures of a hatchling corn snake, with plenty of belly pics to help ID what morph it was

This one was surprising!
-One girl contacts me and says she wants one of my balls that is tame, and that she'll trade another one for it. It's her cousins, and he'll give it to her, but she's scared of it because it bit him in the eye! So she'll take anything I have that 'won't bite'.
She tells me it's a Lucy. I'm thinking, he probably calls her that, but 99.9% it is NOT a Lucy. She sends me pics of a Lucy!

Someone locally tried to take advantage and trade her for 'black garden snakes', as she put it, probably baby black racers, as they are found around here easily. She consulted with me and passed on that.. phew!
Then she was coming to me. I sent her pics of Caramels, Mojaves, Cinnys, Pins, Spiders and more, and told her she can have a few... I wanted a good deal, but didn't want to take advantage.

She then calls me and tells me she left the snake in the car while eating lunch, came back and it's not moving! OMG I thought, here in FL. a snake won't last 5 minutes in a hot car!

She went to a pet store to check and they said it was alive, and the guy said he would offer her $800 cash, since it was a large adult female Lucy!
She called me and I told her, even though I would love to have that snake, that's your best deal.. at this time I can't offer close to that.
So she was set on taking the money and then coming to buy a snake from me.

While the guy goes to the bank to get the $, she feels bad and calls her cousin, because she wasn't supposed to get rid of the snake, and he yells at her and tells her to bring it back. So she leaves and does that.

Supposedly the lucy was possibly gravid from a male lucy and if it does lay, she will get one or two babies for me!




Let's hear your stories!