Rosy Boa Projects

This is a list of some of my rosy boa breeding projects along with some photos. Some of the projects are locality specific animals. I am a big fan of keeping rosy boa breeding projects locality pure. I used to be a stinker about it. However, I had some opportunities come my way that were very interesting and I found myself having to make some compromises here. Randy Wright offered me his purple albino (triv abino) project years ago. Over the years I become involved in other interesting projects that are not locality specific. You might say I have been corrupted. Essentially I live in two worlds here, I am carful with all my locality rosy boas and enjoy maintaining them in the hobby; however, I am involved is some mad scientist stuff too.

Amelanistic Whitewater Rosy Boa

Super Vivid Whitewater Rosy Boa

Amelanistic Rosy Boa

Whitewater Rosy Boa

Whitewater Albino Rosy Boa: The Whitewater rosy boa is a T+ albino boa that I think looks amazing as an adult. They have some variation in color and pattern which is typical of the boas found in Whitewater canyon. The variation in these boas is part of the fun of breeding and keeping them. If you handle them regularly and provide them with a great habitat, then they become super tame and easy to handle. The original male albino was found in Whitewater canyon on April 3,1993 by Craig Harper. It was later sold to Scott Selstad and Keith Carlson and they were able to breed it with a group of females to produce hets. Later a second albino female was found and bred with some of the hets by my friend and mentor Randy Wright.

The photos above show the variation in these boas. For comparison sake I included a normal looking Whitewater boa in the photos. In the past this locality of boa was thought of as an intergrade between two subspecies. However, with the new taxonomy, what were formally called Lichanura trivirgata gracia and Lichanura trivirgata roseofusca are now lumped into a single species orcutti.

True Ghost Rosy Boa: I am very excited about the future of this project. This is a boa that is both hypomelanistic and axanthic. The hypo gene is from the Cabazon locality boa and the axanthic gene is from Pioneer Town. This is not a locality pure boa but each localities bred together here are not too far from each other.