[snake] I'm planning to buy a boa.

[darxus]

Anybody know any good breeders in the area?

I had grand plans to build it an 8'x2'x3' cage (between my front speakers, under my projector screen, designed to be disassembled for moving), but everybody is telling me that that much space would terrify a baby to the point it wouldn't eat. And in fact it is likely to grow out of anything appropriately small by 6 months. So as much as I'm resistant to the idea, I'll be starting it off in a big rubbermaid tub (as everyone recommends), which I plan to buy tonight. Then when it outgrows that I'm planning on a 4'x2'x1', and finally doing the 8' I originally planned.

The only other equipment I'm planning to buy is a Zoo Med Under Tank Heater (6"x8"), and a thermometer / hygrometer (humidity) set.

I'm still very interested in suggestions. I was planning to get an anerythristic red tail boa, but I may have been convinced to get a nice normal to avoid the health problems associated with the inbreeding required to create morphs. I'd love a snow, but I'm not willing to pay thousands of dollars for it.

I've been strangely enjoying going through long lists of baby names.

This is reasonably likely to be a 30 year commitment. I've been doing a lot of research.

Photo of a baby hypo-melanistic Boa Constrictor Imperator normal.

Comments

[darxus.livejournal.com]

That doesn't sound weird at all. I'd be happy about it. I want to socialize it well, and from what you've said I'd trust you more with my baby than somebody who might not internalize how bad it would be to jump and drop it.

Somebody on a web forum who lives in the area offered to let me visit their 6' boa, without me asking. I'm excited, and hoping that cathijosephine and I manage to get there this weekend.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Yeah. You haven't met Monster have you?

[darxus.livejournal.com]

http://images.google.com/images?q=site:chaosreigns.com+monster

I got him feral. nchanter has him now because I couldn't deal with him occasionally damaging my things.