Growing Addition

Well over the last few months the snake collection has continued to grow.  When we started on this journey almost 3 years ago we were thinking of 1 or 2 animals and that was about it.  Since then we have fallen in love with everything about them.  As a result of my obsession with them, I have convinced my wife to allow the collection to continue to grow, so much so that we now have 15 snakes.  For the most part they are either boa constrictors or reticulated pythons, however lately we have added two more that are in categories all by themselves. 

 The first addition was Sunshine, our Albino Burmese Python female.  She was spur of the moment purchase that had a lot to do with her well being rather than us needing to add one to the collection.  Without going to far into detail, she was not in the best of living conditions and we felt that something needed to be done.  When we brought her home we had to quarantine here due to mites and after a two month period she is now mite free and doing amazing.

Sunshine, the albino Burmese python

Sunshine is truly a pleasure to work with.  She is extremely docile and slow moving with a great personality.  Our goal is that as she gets bigger we will try and use her for educational shows and demonstrations, allowing people to see what a gentle giant the Burmese can be.

Our second addition recently is Rock, a Sumatran Short Tailed Python, otherwise know as a black blood python.  Purchasing him was more a long drawn out process.  I worked on convincing my wife for a few months that we should add one to the collection because they are nothing like what we currently have.  Short tailed pythons are more like a chubby lawn ornament that a snake when they get bigger.  There are three types of short tailed pythons, the Blood, the Borneo, and the Sumatran.  The Sumatran is the smallest of them and he should max out at about 4.5 to 5 feet, but will get close to 20lbs. 

Rock- the Sumatran Short tailed Python

As we learn more and more about the different types of snakes available we have found ourselves just wanting to acquire more and more.  Some of the future goals include a Green Anaconda, a blood boa, a Nicaraguan boa, and hopefully a leopard boa.  Aside from the anaconda, the other boas are all relatively small and should be easily managed.  I'll keep you in the loop.

Preparing for our first season

Well we are starting to prepare for our first season here at Colossal Constrictors.  Our plans this year include breeding our male RC Pastel Jungle to our newest boa addition, a female RC Pastel Motley.
We purchased the female from Richard himself and she has been bred once so this will be her second breeding season.

Here is a picture of the male out in the sun.

This is the female, not the best light but you get the idea.

Together we are hoping to create some awesome results, including Pastel Jungle Motleys, which I'm sure a few will be holdbacks.

We are also debating on two other pairings this year.  The first of which would be to breed out to Argentine boas together, Hiss and Jasmine.

This is Hiss, our large male Argentine

This is Jasmine, our female Argentine

We think Jasmine should be large enough to attempt breeding this year, however only time will tell.

The second pairing we are contemplating is actually two females and one male.  We are debating on using Baloo, our Ghost Jungle male and breeding him to one of two females.  The first is Snow, our potential Super Ghost female.  The second choice would be Ariel, our Sunglow Motley. 

If we breed Baloo to Snow, we would get some more ghost boas and some Anery boas, both normal and Jungle morphs.  I feel as though having an Anery Jungle would be nice addition to the collection.

Now if we were to breed Baloo to Ariel, we would not really get anything spectacular this go around but we would get dual het animals for both Anery and Albino, if we kept two hypo versions we would have a chance at breeding them together a few years from now and creating Snow boas, which would be awesome.

This is what a snow boa looks like as a baby.

Amazing looking!