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i'll see what i can do from my work computer or it'll have to wait tilli get home and can put them up with mine. if you search harlequin boa you should find my older posts with the pics in them ill see if i can pull those and put them on here.
 
mom and dad

i can take better pics of dad later, but that really is how rich his color is.
 

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the hypos
 

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"normals"

i do have one baby male left. ill load pics of him later tonight. i found him after i sold the rest of the litter hiding behind his moms cage when i got back from the reptile show. apparently he didn't to leave momma
 
and my female double dose harley

she's bigger now than in the pics. these are probably 6 months old now. i can take better ones of her as well later if anyone wants to see anything in particular.
 

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I think what she means is, glass tanks are risky business for Boas, especially large Boas. Hopefully she won't stretch and break the glass. It's happened to me before, and the sutures make an ugly scar, not to mention the guilt you'll feel should it happen.
 
yeah um i doubt that will happen, sheila isnt that big. that seems to be a little dramatic of an outcome considering she's be living in that cage for close to two yrs and has never had an issue with her. and i didnt post the pics for people to comment about their opinions about my husbandry. thank you and have a nice day.
 
Yeah, mine was living in there for several years, wasn't as large as that girl seems to be, and manged a 6 inch cut from wedging between her tub and the side of the tank. I also doubted anything would happen, but it didn't stop it from happening anyway.

Posting pictures in a public forum means you are bound to get comments. I refrained from making a comment at first, because I just had a feeling you'd display a "so what" type of attitude. Guess I was right. :rolleyes: Your attitude speaks volumes of your concern for your animals.
 
Yeah ... I kind of felt the same way, Richard. I don't suppose I can expect much more from someone who would let an adult female boa sit in a 75 gallon enclosure with dirty newspaper, dirty glass and no hide.

... or, you know ... someone who managed to lose a baby boa out of said enclosure for a bit ...

But, you are correct, when you post things in public, they are up for scrutiny. Especially if you are going to be breeding and want to be taken seriously and gain a worthwhile reputation.

I guess I will be more proactive about it though and say, Jonathan, if you want to keep her in that enclosure, at least make it more comfortable for her. I used to have terrariums before I got better caging, but I made sure it was worth it for the animal.

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But, eh ... what do I know, right?
 
They have a point Jonathon. Once pictures are posted on a public forum it is open season to anyone. If I was you I would try to be a little more self conscious about the pictures you are posting. Everyone has dirty cages from time to time, but they don't take/post pictures when they are in that condition.
 
I remember when he first posted those pictures, she had her babies real soon afterwards. So would you manhandle a big gravid snake like that which is getting ready to drop babies to clean a 1 or 2 day old pee spot. I'm not going to!
 
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I remember when he first posted those pictures, she had her babies real soon afterwards. So would you manhandle a big gravid snake like that which is getting ready to drop babies to clean a 1 or 2 day old pee spot. I'm not going to!
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Good point Bill! And I think we all have started with glass aquariums at one point. I think the possibility of the glass cracking or breaking on big boa like that should be taken seriously though.
 
Jeremy, i've had a female break the corner piece of glass and bend the cam shaft of my lock on a boaphile, she was only 8' at the time.
 
It's is crazy, i came home from work and as soon as i got in the room i seen the glass on the floor and she wasn't in her cage. What the real trip is, she got underneath my other cages which were on casters, but on carpet, so there was only about 1.5 inches for her to get under there, and she was everybit at least 8" around. I had to take all my snakes out of that cage system and lean it forward to be able to get her.
 
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It's is crazy, i came home from work and as soon as i got in the room i seen the glass on the floor and she wasn't in her cage. What the real trip is, she got underneath my other cages which were on casters, but on carpet, so there was only about 1.5 inches for her to get under there, and she was everybit at least 8" around. I had to take all my snakes out of that cage system and lean it forward to be able to get her.
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Good times...
 
I wasn't even commenting on the dirty cage. Pretty obvious she was gravid, and many people don't mess with them until parturition. My comments were solely for the safety of the animal, and didn't involve any criticism on his husbandry, only the enclosure.

But hey, some people have to learn the hard way. :shrug01:


Sorry for taking the post off topic too BTW.
 
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