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it was an accident.

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secretly normal
Seriously, I don't even know HOW it happened

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I'm calling her Cardassia.
The tradition of dorky names continues.

Anyway, expect more photos later when she's settled in, and I can get outdoor shots. She has been bounced around from home to home quite a bit already, is very moody and nippy, prone to hunger strikes, possibly WC, and everyone is convinced I'm the perfect home for her.

So ya.

BUT THIS IS MY LAST ONE YOU GUYS
 
Aww, she's pretty! You know this isn't the last one, right? ;) I keep telling myself that, too. It never works when I look at the classifieds.
 
Congrats she is goregous, I love the orange outline around her stripe. I just got a candoia but mine is itsy bisty compare to that girl lol. Good luck with her hope she starts feeding regularly for you and you know that won't be the last one lol.
 
Wow, that's my kind of accident! She's beautiful. I can't wait for future pics of her in all her Cardassian glory.
 
She's lovely! But for those of us not well versed in the different boa and python species...what is she?
 
as near as I can tell, it's Candoia carinata paulsoni. Solomon Island ground boa (or maybe tree?)

It seems they have a wide variety of looks and localities, I'm sooooo lost.

It wasn't exactly an impulse purchase, this little girl has had like, half the local reptile club involved in her life, lol. I'm still looking into husbandry, but got the gist of it from her previous owners. I was soooo close to buying her the first time she came up for sale, but passed. The girl who did get her decided to re-home her...the second chance was more temptation than I could resist. Doesn't help that my club is full of enablers *grumble*
 
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I would bet with that head shape it is a ground boa or sand boa. The scales look like a sand boas.
 
Buahahahahah! The candoia lust is spreading!

Absolutely gorgeous big lassie :) She is most certainly a ground boa. But I am positive she is a Halmahera Isle ground boa (Candoia paulsoni tasmai) from her shape, size, pattern and colour. They are also very lightly keeled and feel smoother to paulsoni.

Comparing her to one of my Halmaheras, they are extremely similar.

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Bree has yellow on her, just like your lassie :)

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Just wait until she starts morphing from light phase to dark phase and really surprises you one day by looking something like this... Halmaheras can go almost jet black!

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In regards to the last part of your post, I have a very large, very nasty paulsoni lassie. She is so unpredictable that she is not a handleable snake at all, unless I want a bite at some point guaranteed. My only option has been to just completely ignore her. Feed her, clean her etc. But she gets on with life herself in a large semi arboreal viv to compensate for the fact she almost NEVER comes out lol. BUT that has proved in my favour to get her eating. She was on strike for a good few months, and I truly believe that when I decided to ignore her and pretend she didn't exist, THATS when she felt comfortable enough to eat. She has never missed a meal since I rendered handling sessions impossible for my and her safety. High strung candoia are so easily stressed out and will go on feeding strikes for what seems like no reason. But they will come around if given complete peace and quiet, oh and exrtremely hot meals ;)
 
Thanks, Tula. I'm hoping I can have her out a little, from what her old owner said her moods are on and off, and she didn't seem too strung out at the show (I did get a nice chomp by a rosy, I'll have pictures later).

Good to have a clearer idea of her species too, she was originally miss identified as a Viper boa, then it was decided she was a solomons ground. I still have a lot of learning to do about this species, I originally thought "ground boa" meant just that - I'm now reading they love to climb. Ugh, I haven't even started and I already want to upgrade her viv.
 
Ahhh thats the thing though, only Viper boas are truley muddy ground boas. And despite the fact they love humidity, solomons and halmahera's DON'T. Too much humidity and you will end up with a nasty RI.

Paulsoni will climb and express arboreal behaviours if given the oppertunity to do so. My Halmies are more arboreal than my solomons and Isabell Isle ground boas.

I think if you gave her a wonderfully leafy branchy enclosure you would see her out and about, expressing natural behaviours and feeding response ie feeding hanging from branches. It's lots of fun to watch and see them oot and aboot :)

They also like a mildly warm enclosure with an ambient of about 75-78 and a hot spot of around 86. I have found they don't like it anywhere near "normal" boa temperatures of 90+. They also experience natural temperature lows in the wild, so it could be benefitial to reproduce these in captivity, but I have never really found it necessary for them to thrive. I am sure in Scotland, mine recieve lower ambient nighttime temps anyway whether I want them to or not lol.
 
thanks for the info, I've been reading different things on different care sheets around the web on these guys.

Do you know any good forms for these guys? Or any good books on them? (I like having a book for every species I keep, if I can). I'm worried about suddenly saying I have a Halmahera on the local reptile boards, I don't know who originally decided she was a Solomon, but in case it was perhaps one of the less humble members I don't want them thinking I'm trying to smarter than them, you know? The local scene is so thick with ego and drama sometimes you could stir it with a spoon.
 
I haven't really came across any decent candoia books. There was one book though, called rosy, rubber and ground boas and I can't remember who wrote it. But I sold it so Susie! She should know LOL.

I have found some good articles in European reptile magazines, but it's nothing thats not already known in them if you know what I mean. The best thing to do is just talk to people who have experience. They key with candoia is trial and error. You learn as you keep them because there are no real care sheets for these guys. And care sheets can only tell you so much anyhoo....
 
NICE "accident"!!! I love them still!

As for the name. GREAT name for a "once proud and cultured people". LOL.

Now, if you name any snake "Dukat" I'll have to ban myself from the thread.

LOL. YES, I am a nerd. :p
 
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