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    Re: Blacktail Cribo questions

    Quote Originally Posted by RoseyReps View Post
    Cribo means snake. Slang term, hopped the pond from Africa with the slave trade.

    Boom.

    Well...you didn't specify that it had to be BEFORE you gave us the answer
    Exactly what I was trying to say. I just got wordy. LoL!

    Quote Originally Posted by Skiploder View Post
    Clelia, pseudoboa, spilotes, and drys (and others) are all referred to as cribos. A cribo/creebo is nothing more than West Indian slang for "snake". The first "cribo" I ever bought was a mussurana

    If you were to go to Grenada or most other Caribbean islands that have large colubrids and asked to see a cribo, God only knows what species they'd show you.

    The term comes from Africa and made its way to the Americas with the slave trade.

    So the term is not exclusive to drys.
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    Re: Blacktail Cribo questions

    Quote Originally Posted by Skiploder View Post
    Yes, throughout their range there is a variance in tail color. At some point, we started calling the pale tails unicolors and started charging more money for them. Because cribos breed like rats, in a few years these precious unicolors will be as cheap as any other cribo.

    Then we will breed ones with two eye markings only to others with two eye markings and so on and so on.

    Fortunately, Mother Nature isn't as crass.

    I usually sell my female for $350 and my males for $275.
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    Re: Blacktail Cribo questions

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    When do you expect babies?
    Next summer.

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    Re: Blacktail Cribo questions

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    Next summer.
    Sounds good, I'll have my decision long before then.
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