Profile: Sterling

[Trent]

A little profile of my male boa constrictor amarali "Sterling"
Also known as a Bolivian Boa.He is little over three years old and about 5 feet in length.
Awesome temperment.Looking for girlfriend :D

[CDN_Blood]

Very nice. You don't see a whole lot amarali around, so it's always good to have one in the group :)

[marvelfreak]

Very cool looking. I love the peppering down the belly.

[Terranaut]

Yeah the belly is awsome. Nice boa

[Trent]

Thanks Guys!!!

[jaleely]

Hey for some reason i missed this thread! So here i resurrect it!!
Anyway, NICE snake! He's a bit darker than my girl, but she's so young. They are pretty slow growers too...is that typical of a lot of boas? I only have my bolivian girl (who's still very young) and two young dumeril's boas...who never eat so of course aren't growing.

ANyway i love his face! Do you have a close up pic? And i wonder about his tail coloring. If you've seen pics of my girl you can see she's reaaalllly pale compared to your guy!

[Caylan]

Thanks for the revive, I missed this one too! I love Amarli, very unique looking boas!

[Trent]

Hey for some reason i missed this thread! So here i resurrect it!!
Anyway, NICE snake! He's a bit darker than my girl, but she's so young. They are pretty slow growers too...is that typical of a lot of boas? I only have my bolivian girl (who's still very young) and two young dumeril's boas...who never eat so of course aren't growing.

ANyway i love his face! Do you have a close up pic? And i wonder about his tail coloring. If you've seen pics of my girl you can see she's reaaalllly pale compared to your guy!

Thank-you!

I never found him to be a really slow grower,but my other boas have grown faster for sure[bci].

I will try and get some close-ups of his face and tail.
As for your girl...I have never seen one so pale..I think she looks awesome!

[homocapra]

I have what I believe to be a BCI that I adopted from a shelter but he looks a lot like your BCA. Since you have both would you mind explaining some of the physical differences?

[jaleely]

This is a great video on them (not my video lol)

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Mine is particularly light colored, though they are all universally lighter. She was shimmering pink when i got her. I'm sad to see that a lot of that has gone (though it is significantly there), but she should stay lighter in general just due to her breeding. When i got her (from the second reptile show we'd ever seen) it was just a gal and her husband that had a clutch of them for sale. She was the lightest one.
I don't think she'll ever be as dark as yours, trent, but it will be fun to see! You can see they have matching eye stripes, but at least while she's a baby my girl looks almost like a different snake!

[homocapra]

Thanks for the info, I had never heard of these before. I wonder how they evolved to have shorter tails. I was reading that they are savanna snakes so maybe they didn't need the long, prehensile, tree climbing tails like their cousins.

[jaleely]

I've actually not been around many boas to know the difference in their tails. She uses hers a lot. My ball pythons have fat tails, and my carpet python has the skinniest longest tail ever, and she's about in-between.

I'd like to see some outside pics of sterling, actually. I want to see more of that color and pattern! Do you notice a pink sheen on him at all, trent?

[Trent]

I've actually not been around many boas to know the difference in their tails. She uses hers a lot. My ball pythons have fat tails, and my carpet python has the skinniest longest tail ever, and she's about in-between.

I'd like to see some outside pics of sterling, actually. I want to see more of that color and pattern! Do you notice a pink sheen on him at all, trent?

I will take him outside for some pics later in the week..feeding night was last night.
Its funny last night when he was swallowing the bunny I noticed between his scales around his throat was very pink..first time I really noticed it go figure:)

[CDN_Blood]

The bigger they get, the more you're going to notice. If they got the size of a Burmese, you'd see things you never even thought were there :)