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 I got a columbian red tail boa!

omg its great, best snake ever! hes 2 months old, born june 30th. hes 66% het albino (cant wait till hes old enough to breed) pics soon!!!!!!!!



08/30/09  07:00pm

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  Message To: Pyrrex   In reference to Message Id: 2065559


 I got a columbian red tail boa!

*smiles* They are the coolest. Of course Im biased. Other snakes are cool too, but Boas rock.

My understanding is 66% het means basicly that it had two parents who were 100% het for Albino. It could have the gene, or it might be normal. (correct me if Im wrong oh people who have more experience than I with breeding!)

I have two 100% hets who are now two years old and 5 feet long. If I were to breed them together, I have a 25% chance of some albinos, 50% chance of 100% hets and 25% chance of normals. The 100% hets and normals would look identical...so I would then call them all 66% het. If I breed one of them with an Albino, that would increase chances of having albinos to 50%, and all normal looking ones would be 100% het.

Keep in mind also...they usually have anywhere from 14-60 live babies. Thats alot to try to rehome or sell. I got mine free because the breeder had more normals than he could sell. The female was one of his holdbacks even. I totally scored on them. Ill try to get new pictures up soon.

I still havent decided if I will try to breed mine or not. I still have at least another year to think on it.



08/31/09  12:00pm

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  Message To: Fairy Frog Mother   In reference to Message Id: 2065822


 I got a columbian red tail boa!

wow 60 babies! thats amazing... so mine miight not even have the albino gene? that sucks lol. well i would have enough room for them but feeding them would kill thats like $120 a week. well yea i have two years to decide to breed him. i cant focus on him with my cell phone camera so i will try getting my dads camera to get some good pics



08/31/09  12:54pm


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