Boa constrictor Page

This guestbook entry from Kristoffer seemed to us a good introduction
to the Brazilian redtail boa topic:

Am 24.02.01 um 00:06 Uhr schrieb (on February 24th wrote)
Kristoffer
(ninho@pot.com / ohne Homepage) (withouth homepage)

Hei, congratulations for the site, i would just ask for a favor, could someone make the brazilian autorities to let me have my babies with no troubles, man this country is a pain in the "as">>
Tanks for everything!!

According to our knowledge, the Brazilian law even bans private keeping of boas. Nobody is allowed to have a pet Boa constrictor. Moreover Brazil has been practising strict export prohibitions for Boa constrictors and other boids since 1987.

Therefore it is very difficult to get true Brazilian redtails. One has to be very cautious, when such animals are offered, because they could either not have left the country in a legal way or one is at risk of acquiring misrepresented specimen with false locality data.

Its a shame, because the Brazilian redtails are those with the nicest coloration of all Boa c. constrictor, although the amount of red on the tail is inferior in comparison with the Surinames or Guyanas. But nevertheless a light specimen (White Brazilian redtail) from the Belem area in Brazil with its beautiful shade would beat every redtail boa from another country or region.

In the early 80s a guy from Germany imported a couple of beautiful baby redtail Boa c. constrictor from
Belem/Brazil when he was there on vacation.

He raised these babies and was rewarded with a litter of outstanding neonates in 1990. We acquired an especially
light pair from this litter, raised them and were successful
in breeding them in 1996.

The result was stunning. On the left you see an
adult female from this litter.
This morph is called the "White Brazilians".

In our experience, the Boa c. constrictor from Brazil reach at least the same length as the Suriname redtails. We often noticed aberrant variations in the shape of the saddle pattern especially on animals from the Belem area.

This is a close-up of the saddle pattern of a White Belem/Brazilian baby male.

Do you see the wrench between the two saddles in the middle? Thats why we
call him "the mechanic"

The dark pattern in the area between the saddles is a distinct characteristic of the Brazilian Boa c. constrictor

Boa c. constrictor

Amapa/Brazil

Also clear visible in the photo is the dark pattern in the area between
the saddles. This is a disctinct characteristic of the Brazilian
Boa c. constrictor