Jamaican Boa Pic

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thesnakeguy

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This is my large adult breeder female Jamaican Boa (Epicrates subflavus)...


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Thanks for looking,

Simon
 
very cool. You don't see those to often. Where did you get it?
 
Thanks,
I got her and a male as little "shoestrings" back in '93 from a breeder in Montreal...

At one time there were a lot of subflavus up here in Canada - the Reptile Breeding Foundation was reproducing them with the idea of re-patriating the resulting youngsters back to Jamaica, but the Jamaican gov't put the kibosh on the plan because they didn't want any snakes to scare off the tourists...what a shame.

So, for a few years, there were lots of captive-bred babies to be found up here - now I think that my pair are the only reproductively-active ones around. Folks have a lot of trouble trying to get the babies to feed, and the attrition rate seems pretty high. The youngsters are confirmed lizard-feeders and that's what you need to get them going.

Cheers!

Simon
 
thesnakeguy;4280140; said:
Thanks,
I got her and a male as little "shoestrings" back in '93 from a breeder in Montreal...

At one time there were a lot of subflavus up here in Canada - the Reptile Breeding Foundation was reproducing them with the idea of re-patriating the resulting youngsters back to Jamaica, but the Jamaican gov't put the kibosh on the plan because they didn't want any snakes to scare off the tourists...what a shame.

So, for a few years, there were lots of captive-bred babies to be found up here - now I think that my pair are the only reproductively-active ones around. Folks have a lot of trouble trying to get the babies to feed, and the attrition rate seems pretty high. The youngsters are confirmed lizard-feeders and that's what you need to get them going.

Cheers!

Simon
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Awesome, are you expecting babies soon?
 
I like her pattern a lot, its hard to imagine the snake is as old as me. :D
 
Oh men, I hate to hear about storys like that, you know of animals that people once kept and were plentyfull and even easy to breed, but then there was a decrease in interest in breeding them and now the species is on the brink of disapearing in captivity. And why does that often happen with animals that are rare in the wild or not available anymore? Oh well I gess it just enfatises how important it is to get viable populations in captivity. The absolute best of luck getting thouse owesame snakes out of their situation and comon once more:)
 
With any luck, we'll be breeding them in 2011. I have bred them twice previously. This species takes a long time (six to seven years) to reach sexual maturity and seems to only breed every other season and produces large litters of very small babies.

Simon
 
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