my new boa

[eddiezahra]

i got this guy yesterday...but my cam was messed up.. but here he is....tell me what u think

[eddiezahra]

o ya he's a pastel , hes got killer pink on his sides but the pics dont do justice

[joey]

very nice! congrats!

[BoAddict]

very nice but a pastel is a normal not a morph so i hope you didnt pay extra.

[eddiezahra]

nope didn't pay extra... i love him to death!! but he didnt eat today ..is that cus he stressed? i should wait a wekk or so right?? im soo nervous...guess cuz hes new..everyone knoes how it feels lol

[HeatherRose]

Definitley don't feed him or try to feed him the first week he's in his new home...

Just let him chill out for a few weeks, no handling or feeding. It's hard but it's better for him :D

[eddiezahra]

ok...i also thought i should add this picture of him..

[Bartman]

Pretty much all the pastels we see now are just nice normals, but from my understand there was a genetic pastel?

[Invictus]

All pastel is technically genetic - if you breed a pastel boa to a regular old boa, there is an extremely high chance that most of the babes will be pastel. This would suggest it to be a co-dominant morph, however, there doesn't seem to be a "super" - so it's probably just one of those traits that is inheritable, but not necessarily genetic in terms of recessive/dom/codom.

[joey]

I just got a new baby bci too and the first night I had him I fed my other snakes and tried to feed my bp AGAIN and of course, she wouldn't eat, so I put the weaned rat in my boas enclosure and the boy gobbled it up! ...he's been chillin ever since.