Solomon Island Ground Boa

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Santa Isabel is an island in the Solomon's. It's a locale thing... although it seems every white paulsoni is now call an Isabel. Good luck finding breeders, it's fairly sporadic, the only person i see consistently breeding them is Jerry Conway, and personally I wouldn't do business with him, but that's all I'll say on that. Most babies are captive born, not captive bred.

The only real way to work on feeding them mice is trial and error. Some take them right away, some don't. Some eat frogs but not lizards, some eat both, and some don't eat at all. Candoia can be extremely upsetting. I lost my favorite male last summer after nursing him back to health and keeping him for 3 years. When i got him he was all black, which severe scale rot, mites and eating nothing. I was looking for a male so i got him, not the most responsible thing I've done, but he was a beautiful animal once health, and worth every moment of grief he gave me.

I'm taking a brief hiatus from doing anything besides keeping Candoia, but next year i'm hoping to have the 'waigeo form/locale' once I move and settle myself back in. It's a crazy year.

Frogs are easy to find, most local pet stores carry green tree frogs. I got mine fat on frogs, every so often trying a pink as well, side by side. Then once they had good body weight i would take them off feed a bit and then only offer pinkies for a few weeks, and if that doesn't work start feeding frogs again, and just cycle it. You'll try different things every time and it's all about trial and error, and trying your hardest to keep the animal healthy.