• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Boa Imperator pics

W

wvaherp

New member
Joined
Dec 9, 2016
Messages
490
Reaction score
11
Points
0
Location
Reedsville WV
Well I figured I wouldn't stop with the rainbows and brought all my boas out, except my motley sunglow who I snapped a few pictures of the other day just after he last shed.

First we'll start with my favorite to handle. This is Anna, my '16 hypo. She should be just about 5' right now and she shed last night. As usual, her pinks don't like to show up on camera, but she's every bit as orange in person. She's always a joy to work with. Just don't make her think it's feeding time if it's not... lol
3560f268296cdd962960fa6a94b59832.jpg
d92e2bb91f9477cb5e220c17c108a454.jpg
a21576b08e18bbfd01c536bfa0f957c6.jpg
3f9c50aa1284238ddd0e16dbcd749178.jpg
74e9f49a5643f70d17c91363fd116339.jpg
f55a61d301b8a4caccee692cadc373bc.jpg
1a0dfc8b8f8d80f4ca3b2a6713a4e623.jpg
69ed67f9927cda57bc90ac5371f836e0.jpg


Sent via an android carrier pigeon using the robotic pony express.
 
Up next is my '17 motley sunglow, Helios. Like I mentioned above, I took these pictures just after he shed a few days ago. His growth is starting to speed up now that he's on weaned rats and he's shed twice in the last month. Both times the pink mottling on his sides has gotten darker. I'm really hoping that trend continues like it tends to with most motley sunglows. Of course the pictures don't do his colors justice, but they almost never do. He's destined to be the mate for Anna and hopefully a blood or pewter down the road if my hets prove out.
c8e7c1e9e3f7e14a318196c04d18dd8d.jpg
a2c2b5ba068de80af21818816e28b23d.jpg
cf5797ac0de3c352e6b7ebe93ea4e736.jpg
4f872b4f45f2f7b7685a2c607e9ed89d.jpg
eef8535c301a179df69f9ef087c6f563.jpg


Sent via an android carrier pigeon using the robotic pony express.
 
Here we have questionable het #1, Elvira. She was labeled as het for plasma, but I see no hypo in her. I'm hoping that her brother, who I'll post next, and her are het for pewter. That way I should end up with a mix of bloods, type 2 aneries, possible hets for both, and maybe even a pewter or two. Her temperament still isn't perfect, but compared to when I got her last year she's a puppy dog now. Then again I've been told she was kept in tub that was too small for her, she was infested with mites when I got her, and she still has a nasty scar and nose bump from rubbing (which she hasn't done for me). I'm pretty sure she knows she's in a better place and is much more trusting now. Even if she doesn't prove out though, I would like to see what her colors would look like in an albino. There is a lot of red that looks like it is under all the black, to me at least.

1661750b2c0e2b954edbeea017273937.jpg
4e5774d4f141bdbacd47048ece8ace7c.jpg
799049950d656cd4e107c56ef684f905.jpg
1ef8dd509fd66b269a2b98adbd874c3f.jpg
5881335d095d05a34e273415d61a19e5.jpg
7bc7398ff98bc270554504f1dfc3bd8b.jpg
4690203b9849f7a37f3e4f48da149c9a.jpg
cdc40df23322ce7d4db111d5ed2bff90.jpg
1d445ad9826ee90612ecc70fe563d151.jpg


Sent via an android carrier pigeon using the robotic pony express.
 
And here we have Elvira's brother/future mate, Alice. He's more nervous and flighty than his sister sometimes but just like Elvira he's 100% better than when I got them. He had all the same issues as her except his scar is not as big.

722b192aa4625920de64365e97813c82.jpg
eadb7d41f961c3bb5c21c3cfcbc9e4a9.jpg
d64b5d6767e3bf4a3fe8475ce9d6cf07.jpg
c68a707bd1142f3c1d9c3e94a6b0f288.jpg
095963c05a3f30621d1aede62c6fb76b.jpg
3e644816c64ae0a7ff049b99f1c181f7.jpg


Sent via an android carrier pigeon using the robotic pony express.
 
Nice outdoor pics ,you got a really
Nice collection of boas there with some great colour,there coming on really great and all look really healthy


Sent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk
 
richardhind1972 said:
Nice outdoor pics ,you got a really
Nice collection of boas there with some great colour,there coming on really great and all look really healthy


Sent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Thanks, Richard. I do my best to keep them all healthy and "happy." I'm pretty happy with how everybody is turning out as they mature, myself.

Sent via an android carrier pigeon using the robotic pony express.
 
So I've been tracking the growth rates pretty closely on elvira in an effort to figure out when she'll be ready to breed. I dont think she'll turn out to be a very big girl with the various central American blood she's supposed to be carrying, but as seller was obviously full of it about a couple things I figured growth tracking would be my best bet outside of waiting an extra year or two. It turns out that after her last growth spurt this past summer, she's only gained a little less than 2" in about 6 months. Since she's still been on a moderate growth diet, she has put on weight but no real length recently. Seeing as that's the case (and Anna, my '16 hypo, has gained quite a bit of length in the same timeframe, as a comparison) I made the executive decision to introduce Alice into her cage last week. About 48 hours in, I took this picture. Fingers crossed it takes and everything goes well! I'm keeping them together while I watch for ovulation.

b26c834258fd906780e5a179ff294cca.jpg


Sent via the android pony express
 
That looks promising,that's for sure,fingers crossed for you.
I've got one that I think has ovulated this week too, my hypo red pastel and motley, both het albino, I will try post some pics on a new thread

Sent from my TA-1024 using Tapatalk
 
richardhind1972 said:
That looks promising,that's for sure,fingers crossed for you.
I've got one that I think has ovulated this week too, my hypo red pastel and motley, both het albino, I will try post some pics on a new thread

Sent from my TA-1024 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
While I didn't actually see hemipenes, they were pretty obviously locked for at least an hour. So it was promising indeed!

Sent via the android pony express
 
Reintroduced the male into the female's cage after a small meal and couple day break. I was actually going to wait another day, but the male was tearing up his cage today. Pretty sure ky guess as to why was accurate because he immediately started courting her again and was locked within 10 minutes. They've been at it for almost 2 hours now. A little while ago I saw him tensing up every 10-20 seconds, so I'm guessing those were ejaculatory spasms.

She's showing some swelling on her lower 3rd in the last day or so (hard to tell from the pictures, but you can kinda see it), so it seems ovulation is probably occurring. Fingers crossed!!!
b489f51d03ceb96743c714c6d3141353.jpg
6c595047aa49410a189562592bd3889a.jpg


Sent via the android pony express
 
That's not ejaculatory spasms if I'm not mistaken but are the result of him "spurring" the female with his vestigal legs.
 
JCCS said:
That's not ejaculatory spasms if I'm not mistaken but are the result of him "spurring" the female with his vestigal legs.
Click to expand...
Not saying you're wrong, but I witnessed spurring last week without any spasms. In fact, I got to witness him moving his spurs independently in a circular motion. It was pretty cool to see since I've only heard of them doing that before then.

What I witnessed today were whole-body muscle contractions while they were actually locked (or at least I think they were considering their alignment was right and he was definitely everted). That's why I was thinking they had to do with ejaculation instead of spurring.

I've got a video I'll try to upload sometime soon to show what I mean.

Sent via the android pony express
 
Snakes don't ejaculate. Sperm has to a actually swim from one snake to another.
 
elena said:
Snakes don't ejaculate. Sperm has to a actually swim from one snake to another.
Click to expand...
Technically they do have to ejaculate. Otherwise the sperm wouldn't be mixed with the other fluids that make up seminal fluid itself. That's nothing specific to snakes but really for most, if not all, vertebrates. My understanding has always been that it's effectively in slow motion with snakes as compared to mammals, but it's still a part of their mating.

I'll post the clip as soon as I have a chance to show what I saw (or at least what you can see of it im ther clip), but it certainly appeared to be an ejaculatory spasm as they appeared to be locked already and he was not visibly spurring.

Sent via the android pony express
 
Back
Top