Bci - Bcc

[Chambers san]

Ok, I am sorry to bring up a question that has probably been covered many times in the depths of this forum, but I couldnt seem to find one particular group of posts that answered my questions exactly...

How does one tell, indefinately, the difference between a BCI and BCC?
And (sorry if this sounds stupid) but, are Surinams and Guyanans considered something else?

-thanks in advance

[Red]

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Both are Bcc's...
And bcc and bci have a certain scale count...
I don't know them right off the top of my head....
Sombody will be able too... If you look in the morph section there is a couple threds that have the info posted...
Eric aka....Red

[Red]

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BCI - Imperator
Less than 253 ventral scales
Midbody scale count 55-79
21 or more dorsal blotches (Avg 22 to 30)

BCC - Constrictor
234 to 250 ventral scales
Midbody scale count 89-95
Less than 20 dorsal blotches (Avg. 15 to 20)

This may confuse some people but because of these specification some people believe that the Colombian boa constrictor falls into the BCC category. Jeff Ronne is one of these.
Well there it is...
Eric aka...Red

[sclark]

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Hi Chambers,

Red covered most of the info on telling exactly how to tell..

Its hard no adays to be 100% sure unless you are getting from an honest breeder. That is why it took so long for me to get my Surinams.. Last thing I want to do is spend 800 on a set of Surinams and find out the blood line is not pure.. Surinams and Guyanas are both BCC's.. One way I can normally tell is the shape of their heads.. BCC's have a tendency to have a more narrow face structure, where as the Col BCI is thicker and wider.. BCC's like Surinams and Guyanas also should have a much redder more intense tail..

Hope that helped..

Steve

[Josh]

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i have also noticed that bccs have batman like saddles

josh

[Red]

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Oh ya' one last thing... just in case you are wrestling with your snake trying to count the scales... just count them on a shed.... Much easyer... It took like three years for sombody to suggest that to me.... I did it the hard way though... oh well guess I learned..
Eric aka...Red

[sclark]

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I got a visual of red rolling on the floor with a 9 foot boa.. LOL... Hahaha..
Sorry.. But Red is correcy, the shed is the only way to do it..

Steve

[Chambers san]

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thanks very much for all the replies.

[Red]

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That is perty much how it went except I had a sharpy in my hand... lil' dot on every one so I could keep track of where I was....
lol
Eric aka....Red

[tatdaddy]

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m I am lmao with that pictuer in my head of red fighting his snake !!!!!!


TAT 8)

[sclark]

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Hey red,

Using a marker is cheating..LOL

Steve

[Red]

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Who said I was above cheating... lol
Eric aka....Red

[WeLsH]

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Funny Stuff I must say. :P

[sclark]

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Hey Red,

Guess cheating is a good thing from time to time..

Steve

[Doug]

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HI,
Ihave two rather cute BCC, guyana's so I thought a picture is worth a thousand words.
Male Rudee

My Female Holley,


They are puppy dog sweet and never given me a nip or angry hiss.
that seems to be not the norm a freind of mine Has a very Grumpy suri...
he proably hasn't worked with it enough, they are very large boids with tremendous ability to hold on.... So I try and pay attention to what they are doing when out.. this prevents cutting down tree's breaking apart couches and removing small dogs from their mouths hehe doug :P