Princess Diamond Boa Reproduced!!!

simpleyork · 07-23-13, 03:38 PM

thought that this was cool as they live just down the street from me!!!
Leutistic Boa Constrictor!!!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=554463121267166

Mikoh4792 · 07-23-13, 03:42 PM

Pretty cool. I would still take a normal one over that.

sweatshirt · 07-23-13, 03:45 PM

Woah... want!

simpleyork · 07-23-13, 03:52 PM

I too am more keen on normals over the morphs, but it is cool that it was proven out.
last I read he was advertising possible hets. for $35,000 not sure if that was what he was getting though.

Mikoh4792 · 07-23-13, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by simpleyork

$35,000

Wowwwwwwwwwww

KORBIN5895 · 07-23-13, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by simpleyork

I too am more keen on normals over the morphs, but it is cool that it was proven out.
last I read he was advertising possible hets. for $35,000 not sure if that was what he was getting though.

He was getting $15,000 for normals and $25,000 ( maybe just 20k) for motleys.

The saddest part is that it is a completely dead end morph

Lickeypie · 07-25-13, 03:49 PM

Wow, so pretty!

MrCaveman · 07-26-13, 11:59 AM

I wonder how many years it will take until the price drops when normal people can afford one. I also wonder if its possible to get a blue eyed version, which would be more awsome.

smy_749 · 07-26-13, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by MrCaveman

I wonder how many years it will take until the price drops when normal people can afford one. I also wonder if its possible to get a blue eyed version, which would be more awsome.

Depends on what you mean by normal person. Also depends on how many people start producing them. If nobody does it, then the price will never come down.

Will0W783 · 07-26-13, 01:54 PM

That is stunning!!! *drool*

MrCaveman · 07-27-13, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by smy_749

Depends on what you mean by normal person. Also depends on how many people start producing them. If nobody does it, then the price will never come down.

I mean like something under $500 maybe under $1,000

smy_749 · 07-27-13, 11:45 PM

10 years is my guess , maybe 15

Robin.M · 07-30-13, 10:07 PM

Such a dead end when it comes to breeding. It's a white snake, can't see pattern through it, can't have a super form, and doubt adding colour mutations into it will affect the colour.

Beautiful animal in its own right, but for the price tag that will be on it, I think I'll wait 20 years or so.

Rob

TeaNinja · 07-30-13, 11:37 PM

i am super jealous.

BrasilBoa55 · 10-07-13, 12:58 AM

Hi,folks! I live in Brazil and just now, one of the most famous programs showed a reporting saying that the Jeremy Stone’s Princess diamond was actually trafficked from Brazil, as repeatedly stated in this forum. Some people have already been arrested and was ordered the JS prison. He toke his facebook off the air. What next?
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A million dollars may be the price of a snake. The animal that worth this fortune carries wealth in own name: Princess Diamond. A very rare boa. The only one in the world with a completely white skin and black eyes. It’s the darling of the American Jeremy.
“It’s really hard to describe what I personally fell for Princess Diamond” says the American.
He loves to show off the animal in videos and photos on the internet. But he prefers to hide the past and present of the invaluable snake, which is missing now.
The answers to the disappearance of Princess Diamond can be here in Brazil. In 2006, the white snake was found in the woods, in Rio de Janeiro and taken to the Niterói Zoo.
Researchers found out that the boa constrictor has a rare genetic mutation called leucism. "It would be the first boa in the world to register that pattern", explains Anibal Melgarejo, a biologist at the Instituto Vital Brazil.
Light skin and black eyes. The little snake became famous, appeared on TV. But it was never shown to visitors. "It's never been on display. As I remember, it never stayed on display at the zoo", said Thiago Muniz, a veterinarian.
Thiago Muniz, who worked at the zoo, questioned the manager of the zoo, Giselda Candiotto, about the snake.
"She said that she would take the animal home and, a few months later, we were informed that the animal died", said Thiago.
In 2011, the zoo was closed for mistreatment of animals. At that time, it was also observed that some animals were missing, among them the rare boa.
IBAMA and the Federal Police began to investigate and came across the videos and photos of Jeremy, all available on the internet.
"In 2010, he began to post a video of a boa constrictor leucistic too, adult already. And then we started to think that it was quite a coincidence and started to investigate further and came to the conclusion that it was the same animal", says Carlos Magno Abreu, environmental analyst of IBAMA.
Jeremy is one of the largest snake breeders of the United States. According to investigators, he came to Rio in 2007 to negotiate the purchase of the snake with the manager of the zoo.
The transaction would have been completed in 2009 when Jeremy would have taken the animal illegally from Brazil across the border of Roraima and Guyana.
In Giselda’s house, police found photos of her and her husband with Jeremy in the United States. It still remains to be clarifying the value that the former manager would have received for the sale.
"We estimate somewhat around US$ 1 million, that was paid for this animal," says Carlos Magno Abreu.
"It ends up being an animal of a very high value to these people because of the possibility of crossing this animal," says Thiago.
Exactly what Jeremy would have done. "The first puppies were sold in the range of US$ 60,000. There are puppies of US$ 35 thousand, US$ 25 thousand", reveals Franco Perazzoni, Federal Police.
A snake just like the Diamond Princess, that would be her granddaughter, ended up in Italy. "There's a video of Jeremy, he goes to Italy and he goes there to see a snake that would be the Diamond Princess’ granddaughter, this animal that he had there", says Franco Perazzoni.
"It spends a few years, I showed this guy the Princess Diamond. He decided to buy a couple of pups and reproduce the white snake. What an amazing experience for me!", says Jeremy in the video. Giselda and her husband, José Carlos Schirmer, were arrested last week and will respond for international animal trafficking, smuggling and misappropriation.
In the United States, the police searched the Jeremy’s home, but didn’t find the Diamond Princess.
"The information we have is that it has already died twice. The first time in Brazil and now Jeremy says it would have died in January and does not present a carcass, nothing", says Franco Perazzoni, Federal Police.
His arrest was ordered by the Brazilian authorities. We contact Jeremy by e-mail, he says he will not answer questions from the press and completed saying it was instructed not to talk about the case. The former manager of the Niterói Zoo also refused talking.
"The biggest interest we have in concern to this investigation is the repatriation of the genetic heritage, that are the snakes. It’s an animal caught in the wild, then it belongs to the Brazilian State", conclude Franco Perazzoni, Federal Police.
And the search for the US$ 1 million snake continues.