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These three little girls were born here on Jun 26. Pairing was Rose (hypo leopard het blood) x Blackthorn (blood het leopard).

Sadly, during birth Rose got blocked up by a calcified slug and passed away shortly after the surgery to remove it. Quite a bummer to start out the birthing season, but I am grateful these three sweet kids made it out. They're all doing great so far!

F01 (top): Blood het leopard

F02 (middle) and F03 (bottom): Leopard het blood

crispysnakes

I read your recent post on testing. What would you suggest someone do if they want to begin testing their stock. Is it worth testing stock you already have? Should you only bother testing new acquisitions? Is it worth testing boas for more than arenavirus (nido, crypto, etc)? Do any of these answers change if you keep boas, pythons and colubrids?

It's worth testing the stock you already have to see what you have hiding in there, if anything. A few of the more concerning pathogens can be carried asymptomatically for long periods of time.

I've done only arena until recently; I've started running new arrivals through RAL's boid panel (arena/nido/paramyxo). Super easy process, I pick up at Fedex, unbox and swab in the parking lot, then overnight that swab to RAL. Thus far I get results the same afternoon it arrives. Extremely convenient, fast, and easy. I intend to retest the whole collection using the boid panel as I can.

I'd recommend the boid panel for pythons as well (or at least nido/paramyxo). Colubrids I'd be testing primarily for crypto.

Enzo!

#snake #snakes #common boa #reptiblr #boa constrictor occidentalis #enzo

crispysnakes

Price Gouging

Hey guys, I noticed some price gouging on MM with longicauda. The market has risen a little but not that much, and the inflated prices are for poss hets - they’re not even 100% hets or visuals.

I expect we’ll see more artificial inflation over the next couple of years. The same person that cried scarcity with another species and near tippled prices due to ‘rarity’ this summer (despite them not being so rare) is working on a longi version of the same. This person is associated with NERD, which intends to cross IMGs into longicauda and has flipped at least one known arena positive animal.

Buyer be wary, invest wisely.

Picked up some dumpies :)

#dumpy tree frog #whites tree frog #frog #amphiblr

Nito - 2020 1.0 sunglow

added a new boy to the collection! someone get me some more girls 😅

#snake #boa imperator #snakes #common boa #reptiblr #nito

Enzo, 2018 1.0 Boa c. occidentalis

#snake #boa imperator #snakes #common boa #reptiblr #Enzo

Etni, 0.1 Hypo Motley het Kahl

#snake #boa imperator #snakes #common boa #reptiblr #etni

Ryth, 0.1 2019 Blood Anery T2

#snake #boa imperator #snakes #common boa #reptiblr #ryth

I can’t wait to see this guy as an adult. I hope his coral color stays.

#snake #boa imperator #snakes #common boa #reptiblr #nomu

crispysnakes

Got roped into helping mod a FB boa group and I find we’re answering the same questions without fail, every day, so I wanted to throw this up here.

1. Folks posting normals to the group asking what morph they are. The wildtype phenotype varies greatly. Normals can be lighter, darker, cleaner, dirtier, yellower, pinker, more tan, have peaked saddles, barred saddles, aberrant patterns, reduced patterns, or random striping. ALL of these visible traits fall within the normal phenotype, especially with how many locality crosses have occurred within imperator breeding over the last couple decades. Unless you have lineage history, assume it’s a normal of unknown origin.

2. There are no visible het markers for recessive traits that are 100% accurate. Some animals in a litter may look different with one copy of a recessive gene, but many will not. No one can tell you what your boa is het for if you don’t know the parent pairing.

3. If you bought your animal from a breeder as a motley DH albino anery, for example, then that’s what it is. Please do not post to the group asking what your animal is if you bought it specifically as ‘x’. The number of inexperienced people who will respond, who cannot properly identify incomplete dominant morphs, is ridiculous and will only muddy the waters. Additionally, no one will be able to confirm that your animal is DH unless you also know the parent pairing.

4. We get it, impulse buys happen. Please do your best to do some research beforehand. If you are at a show, there are a few important questions to ask the seller. Did the seller produce this animal? If not, who did? If they cannot answer that, be wary. If they can, find out what the parent pairing and/or lineage history is. Even if it’s destined to be ‘just a pet,’ because as we all know ‘it’s just a pet’ boas often turn into breeders down the line.

5. If you cannot properly identify what you have… please don’t breed it. Morph Market is chalk full of poorly bred, misidentified boas already. The hobby is negatively influenced by poor breeding, and some base morphs no longer appear at the quality they should, with the distinguishing traits that they should. If you want to breed, please consider taking the time to learn the morphs and locales, look for quality, and arrange your pairs accordingly. Be a good steward to your projects and take care in what you produce.