NEW! (To this site) *Boa Help!!!

[amousley1]

Hey everyone,

For wondering minds, I have been keeping for about 4 months. My husband has been keeping for about 16 years. We have a coastal carpet python, 2 reticulated pythons, a rock python, two jungle carpet pythons, a goofy little corn snake, a very active ball python that thinks she's a tree snake, and some kind of a red tail boa. I was actually hoping to get in touch with someone who has a lot of boa knowledge and experience. I'd love to be able to identify what, exactly, he is. He was sold as a "common boa", but he is at least a Columbian red tail. He completed about 98% of a shed today, and he has beautiful high pinks on the side that looks like pink marble or granite. My camera really washed his colors out, but you can see just a little bit.

[Tsubaki]

Nice looking boa :), without known lineage it will never by anything other than a boa constrictor. It looks like it has some Colombian blood in it, but it is not a Colombian because of that.

[bigsnakegirl785]

Yeah hard to tell without papers. So it's just a boa constrictor, maybe a Colombian-type. Very pretty regardless! Love the saddles with varying thickness, and the nice little sharp peaks. A great addition. :)

[Mad Max]

He was sold as a "common boa", but he is at least a Columbian red tail.

If he was sold as a "common boa" then he's probably a BCI, while a true red tail is a BCC. Many BCI's, however, are incorrectly sold as "red tails". On top of that, the pet trade gene pool is quite mixed.

A scale count could possibly give you more information about your snake, but I'm betting that you do have a good looking common boa or a mix.

[pdomensis]

I'm by no means an expert but that doesn't look like a strict bci to me. He's got really nice tail markings and peaks in the saddles.

[amousley1]

He is the sweetest little guy. I had to help him with his shed, and didn't even fidget when I was picking around his face. The store we got him from was a terrible, dirty, cold snake store that tried to sell us a kinked yellow head retic. I'm glad we got this guy out of there, and he's quickly becoming one of my favorites. We had a Skype session with a boa breeder in NC and she said he has genetic traits of Colombian in him. Either way, he's my mutt and I love him!

[Tsubaki]

Either way, he's my mutt and I love him!

^:D nice, i'm glad he has a nice home now..

[amousley1]

He says, "kiss?"

[bigsnakegirl785]

I'm by no means an expert but that doesn't look like a strict bci to me. He's got really nice tail markings and peaks in the saddles.

Those don't determine BCC vs BCI. Many baby BCI have bright red tails, mine did, now it's more of a mahogany. BCI can have peaks, and BCC can have saddles. Personally it looks very very much BCI to me, I don't really see any BCC, but as has been stated there's no telling for sure without knowing its lineage. The tail isn't nearly as red as you'd expect in a BCC, as well.

[amousley1]

I'll get better pictures. The flash on my camera really washes his colors out.