Introducing Wash - Brazilian Rainbow boa

[Charis]

Been on a wait list for this guy for several months and he just arrived today! Introducing Wash, a male Brazilian Rainbow boa from the great folks at Living Gems Reptiles. He is the future mate to our Zoé.
Pardon the not great pictures ... What they lack in quality, they make up in quantity!

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Continued ...

[Charis]

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[desipooh.12]

Wow what a beauty!!!

[Kid Boa]

Awesome animal, but I'm not surprised since it came from Cliff at LG. :)

[swolek]

Very pretty! :)

[Hurrok]

Beautiful, you captured the iridescence very well! I like your pics too :) Congrats!!

[Charis]

Thanks Horruk! And everyone else!

[Snakesitter]

Well hello Wash! I almost feel like I know the little fellow. ;-)

Glad to see he arrived safe and well, and thanks for posting picts. Please keep us up to date on how he develops!!!

[Snakesitter]

:::blush::: Thank you!

[Charis]

Thanks Cliff! I'm sure we will be taking lots of pictures of the little guy!

[mr_weatherby]

Very stunning! Thanks for sharing.

[sharthun]

Awesome snake!

[Rainbowsrus]

Great looking baby and I had to laugh at "the great folks at Living Gems Reptiles" the "folks", listed ion order of importance would be:
Cliff, Cliff, Cliff and Cliff. And don't forget - Earle!

[Snakesitter]

Actually, we do have help from time to time, an emergency network, plus a computer-automated facility that does more monitoring work than any three people. *And* I don't have to pay it! ;-)

[Charis]

He was kind of out in the open when I peeked in at him this morning, so took a few pictures. This was also the first time my husband got to have a good look at him, always feel bad for him, he's usually at work when these packages arrive and almost always has to wait a few days to actually see them!

http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac238/MaidofChainz/Wash%20-%20Brazilian%20Rainbow/00e07c1e2ae80c9d23c828e0d29177f2_zps91bb4a03.jpg


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[Snakesitter]

Like! ;-)

[Charis]

Wash ate for the first time tonight, with us, always a good feeling!

[ErikBush97]

Dat Macro.....

[Snakesitter]

Congrats! His brothers and sisters were fed Sunday, and all of them were eager feeders!

[MizCandice]

Superb animal, his shimer is so beautiful!

[Charis]

Had Wash out to handle today and my husband got some pictures. He was nice and calm while we both held him for a bit. Hard to believe that Zoë was that small once! Didn't really realize how big she had gotten until you compare the two!

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[swolek]

He's awesome, very pretty!

[Snakesitter]

It's always amazing to look back and realize how much growth has happened. Like with kids, it's so subtle as it happens you almost don't realize....

[Amyfhist]

He is a really gorgeous snake, congratulations!

[Charis]

Wash is being a bit of a poop, refusing several meals in the last month and a half, not sure what his problem is, except that he did go through a shed during part of the time he has been fussy. But he's still looking good, as can be seen in these pictures from this morning.

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[sharthun]

Stunning little one!

[Tsubaki]

Hope he will take to food again soon, he sure is a pretty shiny little thing :D

[Snakesitter]

He's looking good, Charis! While not common, some babies will refuse during shed, even up to a week before. I have one right now that even refused a live rat pink due to being in shed! Check his conditions to make sure nothing changed, but othewise keep offering what he took before every week, and he'll eventually get hungry.

[Charis]

Yeah, I've been monitoring his temps with my temp gun, he has a very good gradient in his tub. Humidity is good, high but not wet. Not too concerned just yet. Be keeping my eye on him for sure though!

[Brylee1233]

Wow! Really pretty! :D I hope you enjoy him! :)

[knicrn24]

Beautiful! We have a brb from living gems and she's perfect! Enjoy him!

[Snakesitter]

Thanks! Glad to hear she's doing well!

[Charis]

Got Wash out to weigh him today and my husband snapped a few pictures. He is up 78 grams.

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Hello!
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And a very close up of his eye.
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[sharthun]

Amazing iridescence! Wash is looking good!

[Shann]

He's very pretty, and I love their names! Wash and Zoe <3!

EDIT: Just went and looked at some of your old threads to see, and your snakes all have awesome names. Just saying.

[Tsubaki]

Gorgeous!! I have really started to like brb's

[Charis]

He's very pretty, and I love their names! Wash and Zoe <3!

EDIT: Just went and looked at some of your old threads to see, and your snakes all have awesome names. Just saying.

Haha! Thanks! If it works out and we find the right female Mandarin ratsnake, she will be named Nandi to complete the Malcolm and Inara trio. And if we can ever find a female friend for our Niska boy, she is slated to be named Saffron. Also looking to add a pair of both O.p. laticincta and O.p.vaillanti and one of those pairs are slated to be named Jayne and Vera. Not sure yet what we will name the other pair though. It is very nice to have a theme going, makes it so much easier to figure out what to name new snakes!

[philbyi-guy]

very nice snake and very nice pictures

[Snakesitter]

Growing well *and* looking good! What a good snake parent!!!

(Love the eye shot by the way.)

[Snakesitter]

They are an amazing species. If you ever decide to get one, please let me know -- we have plenty of babies looking for good snake homes!

[Charis]

Wash got his cage deep cleaned today, so I snapped a few pictures while he was sitting in a tub waiting for me to finish up with his cage.

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[Tsubaki]

So shiny!!! again, a very good looking snake :D

[Snakesitter]

Still looking sharp! Thanks for the updated pictures!!! Is he behaving himself? ;-)

[Charis]

Yep! Still being good and he has started eating well again.

[Snakesitter]

Great! :-)

[Teal]

He is gorgeous!

[Charis]

Some new pictures of Wash in his enclosure today. He is up to 84 grams now.

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[sharthun]

Wow, Wash is glowing! Nice shots!

[jpsteele80]

Beautiful snake

[reptimama]

He's beautiful! I just got my first BRB 4 days ago. I've been waiting over a year to find one! They are so beautiful :)

[EL Ziggy]

Looking great!

[Snakesitter]

Looking good! I like the regular updates!

[Charis]

Today was a very nice day, one of the nicest of the year so far, so I decided to get some natural light pictures of some of the snakes. So Wash got his first outdoor photo shoot today! I don't think he was impressed with the great outdoors, he just froze when I took him out, which was great for taking pictures anyway.

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[Charis]

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[sharthun]

Love that last shot in the hand!

[Tsubaki]

Looking as nice as ever :D

[Pareeeee]

That is one gorgeous Rainbow!

"I am a leaf on the wind... Watch how I soar…" - Wash

Now you've gone and made me miss Firefly again.

[Charis]

I'm always impressed by the number of people that know where all our Firefly names are from, the show had/has such a large following. It really stinks that they cancelled it after so few episodes!

[Charis]

Tried to take some outdoor pictures today, wanted to take them in a shadier part of the yard. Unfortunately it was just slightly too dark there for my lens and most of them came out blurry. This was the only one that came out.

http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac238/MaidofChainz/Wash%20-%20Brazilian%20Rainbow/6f82a58724f54e54984536838f34c87d_zps449c8477.jpg

Finally figured out what the problem was and moved him over into the sun.

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My two favorite pictures.

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Love this one!
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He went through a pretty big growth spurt this month and is up to 123 grams.

[millertime89]

Gorgeous! I miss my rainbows, might have to get a pair from Cliff and start again.

[Kera]

Crazy gorgeous. Ugh. How do you capture iridescence in EVERY shot, especially the indoors?! It's crazy, he's definitely growing. :)

[Charis]

It must just be our camera or luck or both! I'd always heard how hard it is to photograph the iridescence on these guys but we don't really do anything special and do still manage to capture it for the most part.

[Kera]

Its crazy, awesome:)

[Snakesitter]

Capturing iridescence, Kera, is all about angles and light. Change either one and you may miss it. Charis, you did a good job capturing it!!!