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| austin_89 |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 14:24:46
The pet shop down the road from me is selling a 5ft female red tail boa for £340- does this sound about right? The shop is notorious for giving out wrong information and getting things wrong so I thought I'd ask on here.
Also she's labelled as a ruby red salmon tailed boa, I've only ever heard of just red tails, has anyone ever heard if this or is it all wrong? |
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| JanieW |
Posted - 06/05/2012 : 20:55:54
Fea spends 90% of his time wrapped around his branch, and he's a pain to get off it LOL he's out now, and so is the branch..I carry him down while he's still on it! |
| austin_89 |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 21:46:08
Damn! she's a big girl... I've noticed in bet shops that all their burms and retics don't have hides aswell, maybe they feel at that size they don't need to hide! Lol |
| Kelfezond |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 21:35:10
Pandora is about 16kg now and just tipping 8ft.
I've found the bigger they get the less they care about a hide |
| blackskull |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 21:31:26
its not so much the length,she will get between 5-6ft. its her girth, looking at the dame she will be too big for the x large hides i use |
| austin_89 |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 21:16:37
From what I've seen of pandora she's a lot bigger than this one so they should be able to get a hide for her shouldnt they? You'd think they'd make hides for bigger snakes.
What is pandora weighing in at now? |
| blackskull |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 21:05:06
quote:
Originally posted by Kelfezond
Pandora's set up has just her water bowl, she had a hide for a while but she outgrew it, closest thing I can find to a hide now is a dog basket turned upside down which looks terrible.
the hide situation concerns me when grace is fully grown,hopefully i will be able to find some big pieces of bark when the time comes |
| Kelfezond |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 20:59:56
Pandora's set up has just her water bowl, she had a hide for a while but she outgrew it, closest thing I can find to a hide now is a dog basket turned upside down which looks terrible. |
| blackskull |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 20:55:25
well when i say breeder he only had one pair of sonorans and a red tail boa. i saw the advert on preloved and the dark side. he is in devon so was only about half an hour from me |
| austin_89 |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 20:49:57
I was expecting a lot more than that... A breeder online? |
| blackskull |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 20:11:33
i paid £60 for her from a breeder |
| austin_89 |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 19:59:08
Wow he's getting big! :) he'll get to the point where you won't be able to move him at all! Lol |
| JanieW |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 19:37:39
Fea is a Common Mexican Boa..I call Furby..here is is being super snuggly as always :)
He will not come out, no matter how Kit fidgets lol |
| austin_89 |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 19:23:37
Haha Frankie does that to me! Even gives a little hiss lol
How much did she cost you? If you dont mind me asking. |
| blackskull |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 19:10:38
she's not that big,around 3ft at a guess.i did weigh her the other day but can't remember exactly think it was around 270g. no she has never bitten, although she does give the impression she is going to as she s's up when i go in to get her out |
| austin_89 |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 18:59:58
Aww she's lovely  she looks a big girl, has she ever bitten you? |
| blackskull |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 18:43:36
no need for google, heres my 10 month old female lol
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| austin_89 |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 18:28:43
From what I've found from googling it she is a red tail boa but i cant be sure, the red tails on google are more of a silver colour than the commons... But again i dont know enough about boas.
I'll google them aswell |
| blackskull |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 17:58:08
a lot of shops will label a common as a red tale, due to the red tale, this way they can get more money for it. a shop i go to from time to time do this, i pulled them up on it one day asking if it was a true red tale and what localitie it was, they just said its a red tale due to the tale lol.
i think the only way to know for sure would be to do a scale count, i don't know the ins and outs of it. or post on the dark side asking the people who keep different localities for info.
if you fancy a boa that doesn't get too big how about a sonoran dwarf boa,males tend to get between 4-5ft and not much chunkyer than a royal |
| austin_89 |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 17:54:05
It would take a while to save up for her but i might talk a walk down there tomorrow for her to meet her! Lol
Kelf what do you have in pandora's set up? This one just has a water bowl. |
| n/a |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 17:30:59
I wasn't going to post this as it's off-topic (sorry Austin) but I had a look on preloved just out of curiosity about boa prices, and, well ... no comment ...
http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/105523061/4-boas-6ft-viv-full-set-up.html
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