My son and I have wanted a tegu for the longest time. We were looking for a nice Argentine Black and White hatchling. Well, we finally got one! We ended up with a really nice hybrid. He’s an Argentine Black and White / Red cross. I say “he”, but I’m not sure of the sex yet. I’ll get the probes out this weekend and find out. We’re hoping it’s a boy. Either way, it’s a keeper.
For now, the little guy will live in a big screen cage on our lanai. He’ll get plenty of Florida sunlight along with the proper humidity that he needs. When he gets larger, we’ll build a nice outdoor pen for him to live in.
This kid will be fun to watch grow!
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Over the next few weeks we’ll be adding many boas to our available list. We like our babies to have at least five or six meals in them before making them available. Here is a list of boas we will have for sale over the next few weeks:
- Adult hogg EVB pastel cross - virgin female
- Adult hogg EVB pastel cross - male
- Adult het albino male
- Albino jungle boas
- Albino boas
- Jungle boas het albino
- Salmon jungle boas
- Jungle boas
- Hogg cross boas
- Hypo boas
- Colombian boas
I was taking pictures last night of boas I’m going to list for sale. I have a couple orange tail hypo boas from last year that I have been watching mature and trying to decide whether to keep or not. This female is turning out real nice. I love the big saddles on her tail. She may just have to stay here.
I start my baby boas and ball pythons in 6qt shoebox tubs. I’ve always had a problem with the snake spilling their water bowls. Recently, Clay English told me about a style of deli cup that he uses. I ordered two cases and absolutely love them. I have over a hundred baby boas and some baby ball pythons all using these cups now. Not one spilt water bowl. Not one. The cups are just tall enough that they cannot be flipped over.
You can find them here: Link to deli cups. The picture on the website is wrong. Trust me, you will love these as water bowls in 6qt bins.
Once my babies outgrow the 6qt shoebox tub, I move them to a 15qt. I have two styles of the 15qt tub. One is the Iris STC-410 and the other is the Sterilite 1754. The deli cups work in the Iris 15qt tub too. However, the Sterilite 1754 is a taller tub. Therefore, for these I use heavyweight crock dishes.
Our first ball python clutch of the season hatched. This was a Pied x Normal breeding. Bad odds though. All six babies are male. 
Oh well… We still have a few more HET Pied clutches yet to hatch. I can’t complain anyway. These babies are all healthy and beautiful.
Yesterday was a good day. I came home from work to find that Marge had her babies. This was a Dubay Line Orangetail Hypo boa x Salmon Jungle boa breeding. I haven’t pulled the babies yet, so I’m not sure what the count is. I do know that there are a lot of Jungles. I’ll be keeping a few from this litter that’s for sure!
Once the babies start moving around, I will pull them and get a count. Here are some pictures of the litter.
This is Marge. She is a Dubay Line Orangetail Hypo boa. As you can see, she is HUGE. Actually, the pictures in no way show how stuffed she really is. She still has about 2 weeks left. I can’t wait!!! She was bred with a really nice salmon jungle boa.
This is the same girl that produced my arabesque litter last year. She is twice as big as she was with that litter. Maybe twice the babies?
I was so happy with the babies she had last year. The color she passed on was amazing. With each shed those babies keep getting better. These babies should be even better!
Have you ever visited a website and wondered why people put numbers in front of an animal name or species? Well, those numbers tell the sex of the animal.
For example:
1.0 Albino Boa = one male boa
0.2 Bearded Dragons = two female dragons
0.0.1 Ball Python = one ball python sex unknown
3.2.1 Leopard Geckos = three male, two female, one sex unknown
We had some ups and downs this boa breeding season. We were really bummed out with the results of a few litters, but really excited and happy with the others. We have one more female left to drop. This is the girl that produced the hypo arabesque babies last year. These should be some insane salmon jungle babies!
Here is a list of our 2008 boa pairings:
- Het albino x coral albino - (11/30/2007) (POS 2/5/08) (Babies born 5/14/08 - 2 live albinos born but died the next day, 9 slugs) - The good news about this breeding is that the female proved out to be het albino.
- Kahl albino x jungle het albino - (Introduced 11/30/2007) (Possible ovulation 2/5/2008) (NO POS) (Babies born 6/7/08) - We got some sweet albino jungle boas in this litter!
- Dubay pastel x hog cross male - (11/30/2007) (Ovulated 2/15/08) (POS March 1st) (Babies born 6/12/08)
- Big girl (normal) x arab male (added last week of Jan) (Maybe POS March 14 - very small ovulation) (Due June 27th) (slugged out June 21)
- Dubay pastel x hypo - (Did not witness an ovulation or POS) (Babies born 7/1/2008)
- Scarlet hypo x salmon jungle (introduced first week of Feb) (3/16 - starting to see swelling) (POS April 15) (Due July 29th) - I CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS ONE!
Well, that’s it for this year. I did have a few other parings, but they didn’t take. Maybe this coming season.
