welcome back to the boa morph guide today i have with me a very special snake
his name is selkuth and he's actually the first snake that i've ever no he's the first boa that
i ever purchased i got him from tales and scales in 2014 and that makes him
eight years old so those of you that are looking for a boa and worried about them getting too big
there's an eight-year-old boy for you and the first thing that we're gonna address is that hog
island boas are not actually a morph they are locality but i figured we'd talk about them
anyways so the difference between localities and morphs is that locality is from a certain place
and if you take a locality and you breed it to anything else so if i take
cell couth and i breed them to anything that is not a hog island then the babies
and their forward we will never have a pure hog island again whereas if you take an albino breed
it to anything so you could take an albino read it till cell truth then take the babies breed them to
each other or breed them to an albino and they'll make more albinos so there's no such thing as like
percentages in albinos kind of like if you think about super dwarf re-ticks once you have a hundred
percent and you breed it to anything it'll never be a hundred percent again so with the hog islands
people like to get pure ones and he's a pure one from back in the day usually you can get
these for around 250 300 here in canada and they make wonderful pets they're very
good sized boas that aren't too big they have a beautiful color that's kind of like peachy
gray and something that really kind of stands out with hog islands is at night time they get really
bright but this is something that i noticed kind of happens with all reptiles and i think that at
night time they don't need to absorb the sun and get the heat so at night time they just they turn
a bit brighter so you might notice if you look at your reptiles at night they're going to look
different and you're like did something change and that's what it is the only downside to it is at
nighttime they look wonderful but you don't have the sunlight to light them up and show everyone
what are you waiting for do it just do it yes you can just do it
so hog island boas are also known as a dwarf species of boa they don't get as big
as your regular bci's and definitely not as big as your bcc's as you can see he's stayed pretty
small and if you do over feed these snakes they'll end up getting pretty big too they
can get probably about as big as a bci if they're pushed but i don't like to push any of my animals
i think that animals are a little bit healthier if they're left a touch hungry kind of like us
i know when i eat too much i don't feel that good so i don't want to make my snakes feel
like that either and often when you look at snakes in the wild they are quite lean
mind you sometimes they don't have enough food so because we have access to food we do want to
you know make sure our animals are fed well but i really like to kind of go with looking at the body
seeing what it's like and feeding it accordingly sometimes feeding them a little bit more sometimes
feeding them a little bit less just like in the wild they have different seasons so they'll have
times of the year where they get a lot more food and times of the year where they get a lot less
are you thinking about getting your first snake or do you have any experience with hog islands
even though i've had selkooth for eight years i never really felt the
need to breed them i don't really want to get another hog island and make pure hog islands
my breeding plans in the future with this guy is to make hog island ghosts because ghosts are
really nice and bright but they end up getting a little bit darker or browning out or changing
with age but when you add hog island to them it makes them really clean bright and beautiful
so that's kind of my little project in the future that we'll be working on in a few years
when it comes to boa breeding i've slowed down a bit because i don't want to over produce animals
i want to keep it my collection smaller and really focus on taking better care of the animals
and producing less quantity and more quality and just having enough animals that i can
deal with and still kind of enjoy life on my own without having to always be cleaning lots of uh
people as they become more successful they want to breed more and more or i'd rather
just breed less charge a little bit more and not turn it into a puppy mill type of thing
i'm more of like a morph person than a locality person and originally when i got cell couth i was
planning to breed him with sophie and make some albinos but the way that the recessive gene works
is a little bit different so it wouldn't have done what i thought it would do
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