Some Frost pictures

Trent · 02-18-12, 06:16 PM

A couple pics of my male snow boa Frost.
He just shed this morning as well.Almost glowing

Quite the difference between flash and natural light..

Swany · 02-18-12, 06:18 PM

he looks fantastic in natural light, that is one beautiful snake. Thanks for sharing :-)

exwizard · 02-18-12, 06:21 PM

ooo I liike!!

Skumbo · 02-18-12, 10:30 PM

:O

they're really expensive aren't they? *sad face*

Jay · 02-19-12, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Skumbo

:O

they're really expensive aren't they? *sad face*

Depends how much you think expensive is.

Skumbo · 02-19-12, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by jay0133

Depends how much you think expensive is.

I really cant find them for sale anywhere, lol..

I dunno, I could probably justify anything up to a few thousand, considering any snake purchase will end up costing a few thousand anyway once you factor in housing, feeding, etc etc!

Trent · 02-19-12, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Skumbo

I really cant find them for sale anywhere, lol..

I dunno, I could probably justify anything up to a few thousand, considering any snake purchase will end up costing a few thousand anyway once you factor in housing, feeding, etc etc!

They go for about a thousand up here.
You could justify a few thousand..damn.I wish I could go that high..
Anything over a grand a little voice chimes in and goes it's a snake! Give your head a shake and than the EVIL little voice goes my pretties

Skumbo · 02-19-12, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Trent

They go for about a thousand up here.
You could justify a few thousand..damn.I wish I could go that high..
Anything over a grand a little voice chimes in and goes it's a snake! Give your head a shake and than the EVIL little voice goes my pretties

Well, look at what it'll cost you to feed one snake over its life (just estimating.. 20 years) if it remains perfectly healthy w/ no vet issues etc..

I can get adult feeder mice for ~$1.50 each, not sure on rates elsewhere.. but

$1.50 per mouse per week x 52 x 20 years = $1560
so you're already at a $1560.
add in a decent cage and bedding for 20 years.. probably around $500 there
then electric bill - lets say 25 watts for a heat mat, it runs even half the time for a month thats ~$2 a month x 12 x 20 = $480 over 20 years

cleaning supplies etc etc not included**

so include substrate etc etc thats like $3000 really approximated to keep a decent sized snake for its life time, so for me, I wanted a BRB, so i just put down $175 on one including shipping (wont be here till it warms up though..), seemed not that bad, but in reality I'm "committing" to ~$3000 or so over the next 20 years!

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that said cost is also relative, I'd rather spend $5000 on a $2000 snake +"living costs" over 20 years than spend $5000 on gas when I could have just rid my bike on all those short trips, which I try to do as much as possible now a days, i save a ton on gas that way!

i ride my bike about 30 miles per week, (10-15 in the winter, 40-50 or so in the not cold times) which is about a gallon and a half of gas on short trip mileage in my car.. thats $3.50x1.5 = $5.25 a week x 52 x 20 = $5460 assuming (HAH!) that gas wont go up in the next 20 years..

*cough* rant.. sorry!

shaunyboy · 03-28-12, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Skumbo

I really cant find them for sale anywhere, lol..

being double recessive morphs,it takes a fair bit of breeding to produce these beauty's

they are produced from.....

breeding an albino,to an anerythristic boa,to produce double hets for snow

crossing the double hets back to each other,gives you a ONE in SIXTEEN chance of, producing a snow boa in the litter

imo,this is why you can't find many for sale mate

cheers shaun