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[Sauzo]

Yeah!! Go Boa, Go!!
Sorry Sauzo, I know you love your Retics, but I'm rooting for the Boa.

Haha, i love boas too...i got 5 of them lol. Like i said, i dont think Ziggy would go wrong with either a boa or retic.

@Ziggy- Talk to a lot of people with BCOs and i would advise join a couple BCO FB pages and ask lots of questions about their personalities and temperaments. Also iirc, you said you are a member of a herp club and i'm assuming you go regularly. If so, ask them too. While all snakes will have their own individual personalities, each sub species will have differences. For example, my suriname, hypo bci, normal bci and sunglow bci all are really laid back and have been since about a week after i got them. Louie my BCL though was VERY shy when i got him and is finally warming up to me after almost a year. He never was shy was about food and is hands down the most forward and eager eater out of all the boas. A lot of people i've talked to who have BCLs and also breed them have said the same thing, BCLs tend to be a much more shy boa and take a lot more work to really get them to warm up to you.

This is assuming you are going with a BCO. I still am going to throw in a BCL though especially if you get a good bloodline one. They start out as ugly ducklings but with each shed, they get better and better until about 3 years old when they fully develop in color. They are like a GTP in terms of how much they change from babies to adults except unlike certain GTPs like biaks where you never know what you will end up with until about 5 years old when they are close to being done with changing and can look completely different from the parents, you can get an idea for a BCL baby from the parents.

Like here are the parents of Louie who were from a Meltzer/Lincoln line from Legacy Reptiles and a yellow line from Vin Russo. And you can see he is looking more and more like his parents with each shed.
Mom



Dad


And finally, Louie again.


BCLs are also an underrated boa which arent very easy to find. The three people i know who work with them that i would trust are Vin Russo, Jessica Fee and Sonya Koolmo who is who i got Louie from.