I acquired the Boa I call the "Tribal Boa" back in 2007. He is a captive bred Colombian that popped up in a litter of normal Colombian babies in 2006. Here are a couple shots of him taken back in the fall of 2007.



He has been the single most difficult Boa, of a relatively small size, that I have ever handled. He is feisty, squirrely, unfriendly, nasty, impatient, ferocious and did I mention, he hates my guts. He simply refused to pose for any pictures. No way. He is fluid movement like a saw scale Viper picking his moment to deal that death blow! A menace is he.



The nice folks I got him from, the Bob and Liz Shumaker, of The LB Reptile Experience fame, from Jacksonville Florida if I remember right, are the good folks who allowed me to pry this little fellow from there able hands. They are pretty much nuts, just like I am! Really nice people.



Anyhow, after I obtained the little fella... I am pretty sure it was after, they told me that the Boa I had been calling "The Tribal Boa" had a different name while they still had possession of him. "Mean Joe is his name", Liz told me one day! LOL Well that name fits him perfectly!



This is a picture the Shumakers took of him while they still had him:



Well, Mr Mean Joe AKA The Tribal Boa, so far had seen four consecutive breeding seasons in my hands as a large enough to breed boy. So far he has had a single season where he bred like a champ. Sadly the girl he bred did not produce any live babies. Just slugs. That was two seasons ago. This past season he took off entirely choosing the just sit in the corner daring me to get near him.

Mean Joe is alive and doing quite well. I decided in the off season this year that I would feed him more than I normally feed a male breeder Boa. As a result, he is a bit bigger and has more weight than I normally have on my males pre-breeding season. Still I have my fingers crossed this this year may be the year that we get to see if he is carrying any kind of a Dominant mutation in those genes of his. The nasty little bugger!



The picture I snapped of him today between strikes. LOL