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Above is a courting pair of San Gabriel mountain Rosy boas…a relatively new California locale
and one of the most orange naturally occurring Rosies
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Above is a gravid nominate form Indian or Blunt tail Sand boa Eryx Johnii johnii…
Neonates have gorgeous bright orange bands but these usually fade and result in a plain brown adult, similar to a giant Rubber boa. Johnii are still quite uncommon in collections, which is unfortunate because they are the calmest and best feeding of the sand boas. Plus babies eat well and are huge, at close to half the length of the mother
There is one exception to this dramatic color change however. There is a new blood line where the orange holds to adulthood(below)
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I was fortunate to be granted CITES to import some of Dr. Staub's special "Sunset Johnii" This is the
exact same type of snake as the one above, but these have been selective bred for
holding the orange color right into adulthood.
The project is still ongoing and they get better every generation. I'm proud to be the first Canadian working with this line...I'm pretty excited about it, and might produce these as early as 04.
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Above, my male albino(Limburg) coastal Rosy ,discovered and first propagated by
Randy Limburg. These differ from the whitewater line by having classic albino red eyes
Some project pics for Katt and other Erycine lovers
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