Longicauda

[Ronda63]

If I wanted to get an anery longicauda, where would I go and about how much do they run? Is this a recessive gene? If so are hets ever available? Also, how is the general temperament of the longicaudas? Thanks for answering my questions!!

 

[JCCS]

Anery Longicauda are around. Tibor Papp and Micah Denton are two guys working with them fairly extensively. It is a recessive gene and I have seen hets before, but it's been mostly het x het breedings so far, so it's a lot of poss hets for sale.

As far as attitude is concerned, they're up and down. My male is alright on most days, but my female is not a pleasant boa at all.

Chris

 

[Firebill]

My male is the sweetest! My female I don't trust!!

 

[Ronda63]

So it sounds like a crap shoot when it comes to their personalities. Thanks for the input!!

 

[Metachrosis]

actually they are no different then any other boa,the more you
interact with them the more influence you can have in their over all disposition.

When they are good,they are really good
When they are bad,they can be very bad.Which usually involves self inflicted
injuries.

As for the BCL market,waaay under appreciated IMO
The old Mead and Metzler lines are basically long gone due to scatter breeding
profiteers.The Harding line is still held true by a few people (both normal as well as Anery) The Harding line anery BCL we have here are from normal type parents
that dropped natural occurring anery off spring.
Those were then bred to produce one of our 1.1

I owned one of the hypers bred by Denton and later sold
it because it wasnt what I wanted to reproduce,there is more to BCL then just color.
Skinny heads with overbites just shouldnt be bred IMO(which several in that hyper line show)

Good stuff right here,

 

[Ronda63]

They are such beautiful boas. I am really having a love affair with these, the amaralis, sabogae, and the tarahumaras. I currently have BCIs, but would truly enjoy getting into any one of the other boas I listed.

 

[Metachrosis]

BCL are very simular to the Central American BCI strain,they are much lighter in body mass then the Colombians. Breeding females getting out to 6'/15-17lbs,litter counts under 24 are common

 

[KingBowser]

I would like to know more about the different bloodlines and why there are so many. Are all, wasn't only a fairly small number of the founding stock imported?

 

[Metachrosis]

Thats a sticky issue as "many" lay claim to fame but few have rights.
It basically comes out to those that received of the original importation, lay claim to "their line" after successfully reproducing in captivity.

http://www.boa-subspecies.com/subspecies/longicauda.htm

http://www.boa-subspecies.com/subspecies/longicauda.htm

With abit of research one can find the "holes" and or the "BS" many have gotten away with.
There are other resources,but these two links get most well on their way to understanding
abit about the BC Longicauda

 

[Metachrosis]

OOPS! http://www.cuttingedgeherp.com/boaconstrictorlongicauda/

sorry bout that . . . .

 

[Metachrosis]

That should read "one of our 1.1 pair"
We have a 1.1 that are off spring of an Anery X Anery originating
from wild type parents.

No funky "het" games here

actually they are no different then any other boa,the more you
interact with them the more influence you can have in their over all disposition.

When they are good,they are really good
When they are bad,they can be very bad.Which usually involves self inflicted
injuries.

As for the BCL market,waaay under appreciated IMO
The old Mead and Metzler lines are basically long gone due to scatter breeding
profiteers.The Harding line is still held true by a few people (both normal as well as Anery) The Harding line anery BCL we have here are from normal type parents
that dropped natural occurring anery off spring.
Those were then bred to produce one of our 1.1

I owned one of the hypers bred by Denton and later sold
it because it wasnt what I wanted to reproduce,there is more to BCL then just color.
Skinny heads with overbites just shouldnt be bred IMO(which several in that hyper line show)

Good stuff right here,

 

[KingBowser]

On Russo's page it lists 5 different "types" of longicauda...I'm assuming, like you said, are just animals that were bred from imports. I understand that these boas are highly variable in appearance. Is the anery gene common amongst longicauda? Many specimens I have seen appear to be anery but are not. They're just very dark.

 

[Metachrosis]

For the most part what you said is correct,I cant prove several aspects on this strain but . . . . . .

Which of these variants are anery ?

 

[Metachrosis]

1st one and the last one are normal phase BCL,the second pic from top
is a yearling anery that now looks like this

actaully abit darker,the pic is a year old

 

[Metachrosis]

oops wrong pic .......
this is the correct animal . . . .

 

[KingBowser]

The snake in the very top pic looks the "most" anery to me. Shows how much I know about these snakes! Exactly how can you tell anery from normal? Do you have any idea how many of these were originally imported?