A female boa typically mates several times and can mate with more than one male. However, she only produces one litter of babies in a year and sometimes skips a year. On the other hand, a male can mate with several females and sire several litters in a year. This means that the number of females on hand is more likely to limit the number of babies produced than the number of males on hand.

If a seller has 10 males and 10 females while the buyers want to purchase three females for every male, the seller is going to run out of females before selling all his males. The seller is going to have to reduce his price on the extra males to get them sold. Simple supply and demand.

"Temp determined" means "temperature determined". With turtles, crocodilians, and many lizards, simply adjusting the incubation temperature changes the sex ratio in the babies. This is great if you want more of one sex than of the other. As far as I know, the sex of baby snakes is not determined by the temperature during incubation/gestation.

Hope this helps.

Hmm. Somehow I missed an entire page of replies in this thread. :)

well thank you all, i feel a little dumb because i knew that females have one litter about every other yr. but i was thinking, when i read that, that he or she was saying they could only be bred once ever. duh thank you all so much for all your help, once again the people on this web site proved how cool they are!!!! bye guys

You should get 2-3 het. females, the following yr. get a nice unrelated (kinda)albino male. Make sure they are the same strain though. Good luck.

When I first started purchasing investment boas, I got one albino '05 male, and 2 '04 het females...

my reason for this was one male can breed both females, and the prices for sexually mature albino females were almost triple the price I paid for my male...

Hope this helps.