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Re: Going to shed or something else?
 Originally Posted by Zombree
This is off my phone so autocorrect might get me, be warned. Thanks for all the advice. Very good information. I am buying Vendetta a pretty girlfriend here soon, but she is a Guyana subspecies. Is that a type that is smaller? Larger is better in my eyes. More to play with 
Yours is a normal Colombian (with an "o") BCI and I'll be honest with you that you may have one hell of a time selling babies if you cross a BCI to a BCC (of Guyana or any BCC locality and of any quality). Most people who are serious about boas are very keen on keeping the localities as pure as possible: this wouldn't be a cross of a BCI to BCC or a BCI Colombian to anything other than another BCI Colombian. I would recommend to find a Colombian gf for your boy (a morph perhaps) and leave the Guyana to another Guyana or keep it as a pet. You can do what you wish, but I highly recommend you don't cross those two animals. Plus read a lot more up on boa localities and species if you wish to persue breeding these guys: Guyanas are typically larger than Colombians (always exceptions).
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4.15 Ball Pythons
1.1 Angolan Pythons
2.2 Cali Kings_______________________0.1 SSTP Black Blood
1.1 T+ Argentine BCOs______________1.0 Snow Bull
1.3 Colombian morph BCIs___________0.1 Coastal Carpet
0.1 Hog Island BCI__________________0.1 Platinum Retic
0.1 Het Anery BCL __________________0.1 Lavender Albino Citron Retic
0.2 Central American morph BCIs_____1.0 Blonde/Caramel Retic
0.1 Pokigron Suriname BCC__________0.1 Goldenchild Retic
0.0.1 Corn
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Re: Going to shed or something else?
Daybreaker,
Thanks for the advice! I have been trying to read up on boas but the internet will have you think 5,000 different things And I will take what you said in hand. I am purchasing the female G. in any case because she is beautiful, but I won't cross the two. I am not that into breeding boas- it was just an idea for the future, since it will take her years anyway. And I was hoping she would be a larger girl in the end! I love large reptiles. My fiance won't let us keep a retic, so the biggest boa I can handle is just fine with me.
And I will remember the "o". Lol, thanks again.
Edit: I probably won't breed them at all. But I do love having lots of them around. Maybe I'll go around collecting all the subspecies.
Last edited by Zombree; 06-20-2014 at 08:35 PM.
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Re: Going to shed or something else?
 Originally Posted by Daybreaker
Yours is a normal Colombian (with an "o") BCI and I'll be honest with you that you may have one hell of a time selling babies if you cross a BCI to a BCC (of Guyana or any BCC locality and of any quality). Most people who are serious about boas are very keen on keeping the localities as pure as possible: this wouldn't be a cross of a BCI to BCC or a BCI Colombian to anything other than another BCI Colombian. I would recommend to find a Colombian gf for your boy (a morph perhaps) and leave the Guyana to another Guyana or keep it as a pet. You can do what you wish, but I highly recommend you don't cross those two animals. Plus read a lot more up on boa localities and species if you wish to persue breeding these guys: Guyanas are typically larger than Colombians (always exceptions).
Found this site and it really helped me understand the differences. I was so confused because of all the misleading information out there, but this REALLY helped. So if anyone else reads this post and needs to know the difference, here it is!
http://www.herpcenter.com/reptile-ar...nstrictor.html
Really good stuff.
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