New Kids and Thoughts on Future Plans

I'm absolutely in love with my boas. I've got this guy coming next Spring, as soon as the weather will allow him to be shipped from Michigan. He's a Hypo Poss Jungle. I think I'm going to pair him up with my beautiful albino girl Daisy, and hope that the Jungle proves out so that I can work towards some really exciting babies: jungles, albino jungles, sunglows, junglows... Mmmm, Yummy!



Then, in the category of something I never thought I'd actually get, I picked up this half-dwarf Burm at the recent expo in Mesa. I absolutely love burms (albino greens are my absolute favorite morph of any snake), but their size is obviously an issue, and dwarfs are said by many to be nasty little devils. Add the Lacy Act, and I wasn't sure I'd ever come across locally produced half-dwarfs. Nevertheless, here he is.













His parents are granite, so I suppose he's poss het granite, but I'm not a real fan of that morph, so I'm happy he's normal. He's pretty amazing, if you ask me

How old is the Burmese? And how big do you think he'll get?

cosmiclandscaping said:

How old is the Burmese? And how big do you think he'll get?

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He's exactly six months old and about 370 grams.The breeder from whom I bought him had the sire at the show. He was about 7'. Being a male, he should typically get in the 7-8' range.

That is super cool. If he wasn't half dwarf he'd get even bigger right? Like "don't bring your pomeranian around my snake" big?

cosmiclandscaping said:

That is super cool. If he wasn't half dwarf he'd get even bigger right? Like "don't bring your pomeranian around my snake" big?

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Yes. Burms get huge. This guy should be a 'boa sized' burm.

Love the burm. They are sweet snakes when their requirements are met.

Awesome pics! I love the bigger snakes but will never own them... too big for me! I helped rescue a few big boas and a couple of retics a few years back... Holy starved animals... they require a lot!! But I enjoy pictures of everyone elses!! please post more!

DuxorW said:

Love the burm. They are sweet snakes when their requirements are met.

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Thank you. Supposedly, the half-dwarfs share the same disposition as their larger cousins.

Ravenessa said:

Awesome pics! I love the bigger snakes but will never own them... too big for me! I helped rescue a few big boas and a couple of retics a few years back... Holy starved animals... they require a lot!! But I enjoy pictures of everyone elses!! please post more!

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Thanks! I'm sure I'll update as he grows...and grows...and grows.......

So, Buddy the Burm has quite the appetite and feeding response. I reached in the other day and got a little love tap.

Ouch! I would use a hook with him from now on.

I wish I had followed up with pictures after I cleaned it up. You could see a perfect impression of his bottom row of teeth by the base of my pinky, and both upper rows of teeth on my palm. Not sure what happened on the side of my pinky; must've nicked me there on his way in.

I'll have to try to post some new pics. He's really gorgeous, and growing so fast. He's 9 months old, almost 4 feet long, and about 650 g. in weight. I love him. He'll sit on my lap all sprawled out for as long as I let him.

Here's a few new pics of Buddy the Burm at 9 months of age.

He is good looking! Thanks for sharing the pics.