my female bcc

beardieguy · 04-21-05, 10:02 PM

Here is my female that I bought at last years reptile show in Calgary. Hope you enjoy.

Rick

thunder · 04-22-05, 12:45 AM

hate to break it to you, but that's a bci, not a bcc. its nice tho.

beardieguy · 04-22-05, 04:27 AM

Well when I bought it I was told that it was a bcc so that is what I have been calling it. I have not really understood how to tell them apart yet.

boas_and_such · 04-22-05, 05:12 AM

that's one beautiful bci...very clean...

im hopeing to get a male to breed with my female very soon!

anyway...hope you have another year of good luck with her!

beardieguy · 04-22-05, 05:15 AM

I have a male for her as well that I picked up for her. Here is a pick of him.

boas_and_such · 04-22-05, 05:21 AM

wow...now that's nice!

beardieguy · 04-22-05, 05:25 AM

Thanks for the kind words. These 2 were my first boas since I moved here. Now I have 10 boas and 6 corns and a leucy texas rat.... now it never ends..

Rick

boas_and_such · 04-22-05, 05:35 AM

i know what you mean...even though i haven't been collecting that long i know just as good as anyone how addictive they are...i got my first snake (albino lavender king) a little under 3 years ago and now i've still got him plus 3 more snakes (soon to be 4, then hopefully 5) and a lizard...and i dont think i want it to end...

Paula Branae`

Dave_18 · 04-22-05, 05:50 AM

i have a couple of years experiance but i started with one corn, then that turned to one corn and a ball python, then i got a female corn an then i got my bci a week ago! im now after another bci, rtb and whatever else i can fit in an afford to keep within the future!
it is indeed an addiction!

K1LOS · 04-22-05, 09:50 AM

nice boas.

so right about the addiction, now if i could just get my gf to understand!

Geoff

thunder · 04-22-05, 02:48 PM

that male is also very nice, the two are similar and suit each other well. nice pair!

beardieguy · 04-22-05, 04:57 PM

Thanks alot everyone. Yeah now I am adding to the collection a male albino who was just born Mar. 7/05 and I am looking at a salmon poss. triple het and a poss dh snow.

Man I am going to run out of room soon...lol

beardieguy · 04-22-05, 04:59 PM

yeah and I have about 50 bearded dragons as well, a veiled cameleon, and 4 geckos and the dog. Cannot forget my dog....lol

varanus69 · 04-24-05, 10:00 AM

my opinion on the female is that it is (or very close to ) a pastel...It is by far the cleanest bci i've ever seen ( we are friends so i've seen other pics) and i think it could be a pastel.. any other opinions?
Either way that is a smaokin boa pair rick

M_surinamensis · 04-24-05, 10:54 AM

Just for the record... No matter what some people seem to *think* they can do to distinguish between boa constrictor subspecies via a couple photographs... Scale counts are about as accurate as you can get with animals you can't trace back to reliable import data. Things like general appearance and saddle count are TENDENCIES within a subspecies but what's phenotypically "normal" is not a hard and fast rule and there's a lot of overlap in the generalizations which can be made.

That being said... imperator *generally* have around twenty-thirty dorsal spots while constrictor constrictor rarely have more than twenty two-twenty three (and as few as twelve-fourteen). Your animals are coming in shy of twenty by my count from the photos and the middorsal head stripe isn't showing any distinct lateral projections (another tendency with BCC) so... Do a scale count before giving any credence to the detractors. I'm not suggesting anything too strongly one way or another, especially since a lot of the captive lines are subspecific crosses... but I'm also damn sure that nobody else can be positive of which subspecies those animals are or aren't (well... between the two popular choices anyway) from those photos and anyone claiming otherwise lacks credibility.