A Rainbow Addition

[Lefitte]

I'm so excited! I have wanted a Brazilian Rainbow Boa after seeing a picture of one of my friend's quite a few years ago. I was planning on waiting until my kingsnake was a little bit bigger and I had more confidence as a keeper to get myself one, but after some intensive research and a perfect opportunity presenting itself, I ended up taking the plunge a whole lot sooner than I imagined I would. I was really only holding back for my family anyway and it's become not as big of a deal as I thought it would.

The friend that I mentioned had her second litter and I jumped on it. I preferred a male [I've got my deserty female and tropical male, if I'm only going to have two I might as well have some variety right?] and today I was able to pick through them. Only 5/18 were male so at least that made things fairly easy. Knocking off the currently mean as sin babies as options helped narrowed the list to two and it took a while but I finally made my decision and went with a brighter male over a darker male with bold black markings. It was so hard to choose!

He's on hold for now as I get things set up and test out his RUB to get things settled. If the weather is decent, I hope to get him in early September [Ironically around the same time I brought my first snake home]. He's a month old today. I have some possible name ideas but I don't think I'll try naming him before meeting him. I can't wait!

In the pictures; Both of my choices are curled up next to each other so it might be a little hard to make out where one stops and the other begins. I chose the male on the bottom of the picture, the brighter one. They were all so beautiful though.