been curious about this and wanted to ask and talk about my experiences but basically i started this snake keeping journey by sourcing a pure Colombian red tail boa that was 100% normal/wild type because at the time it was v important to get what i had in my mind as being the purest representation of the wild animal as possible because i’ve always greatly admired them and the natural locales they’re indigenous too

what i have noticed tho is that finding a pure locality Colombian red tail was actually way harder than i had originally thought it would be and i had to really do a lot of homework to make sure that the specimens i got were 100% pure locality, that any morph genes could be traced back to Colombia and not some outside source, etc - my female isn’t het for anything just as normal as normal can be and i got the albino specifically because in my research i saw that the Kahl line can be traced back to a couple of breeding pairs straight from Colombia

so i guess my question would be what happened? because i always thought that Colombian red tails and Emerald Tree boas from an outsider perspective in arachnid keeping we’re always like the standard pet snakes along with ball pythons but now that i’m actually in the hobby that doesn’t seem to be true and it seems a lot harder to get Colombians comparative to all the other localities like Peru, Nicaragua, Sonoran Desert, Hog Island, Argentina, etc - any particular reason? or did i just pop up at the wrong time perhaps?