Kamau

Discussion in 'Boas' started by Karlee, Mar 30, 2012.

  1. Karlee

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    I just had a stroke of luck brush my way. As most of you should know, I have always loved snakes like family, and today, one joined my family. A quick story

    I came to school, really depressed about losing my water dragons two weeks ago. My algebra teacher, Mr. Harris, eventually got me to tell him the reason why I was crying, and he made me an offer I couldnt refuse. Mr. Harris always knew I loved snakes, and he felt like he could do something that would cheer me up so he offered a kenyan sand boa from his newest litter. He only had one snake left, a runt male. I was so thrilled that I got an old twenty gallon aquarium in my garage (I used to own fish but I never got rid of the tank) and cleaned it out well (a good scrub and a weeks worth of soaking). I got some aspen shavings and a heat pad from Clair (you remember, my burmese breeder friend (btw, she gave it to me for free since she owed me when I watched all twenty of her snakes during Christmas while she was out in California with family)). I bought two sets of thermometers and hydrometers and set everything up. Correy gave me a heat lamp for $20 because the ambiant air temperature was off (I havent talked about Correy on here I dont think). After I got everything set up, I got the snake afterschool from Mr. Harris and was suprised I got an Anery from him for free. He said he was a pest to sell so it might as well be on the house. Clair also gave me some frozen pinkys since we kinda bet on stuff a lot and that just so happened to be in one of them. I quickly named him Kamau, a kenyan name meaning "silent warrior", perfect description of a snake. He is doing great and I would post a pic if I could, cameras dont like me! I never done anything to them, yet. Anyways, I know it wasnt the best choice but I just couldnt turn it done. Such a great animal and I really look forwards to living with him.
     
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  3. lizardgurl87

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    wow! That's great! I've always liked Sand Boas too! :) Good you have all the supplies and all and that's cool your Algebra teacher would help you like that-and that he breeds snakes! Most people and my teachers just think it's odd to have snakes or reptiles, any exotic animals as pets I guess lol
    You should post pics of Kamau soon! Well, when you get a working camera I guess-I just saw how you said your camera doesn't like you o_O
     
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    No electronic likes me... I dont understand them. Something is wrong with the battery compartment though, it wont stay closed enough to use the batteries. Thinking of replacing it.
     
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    Finally got a good camera
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    He's awesome! There was a story on Sand Boas in a Reptiles magazine that said morphs and all-and he's a morph. I swear I saw something about them in there or somewhere else I guess, but I only found Rosy Boa morph articles o_O
    Well, I found a website(http://www.sandboamorphs.blogspot.com/p/morph-guide.html) and it seems he would be a:Anerythristic simple recessive (Lacking Red or Orange Pigment often referred to as the 'Black and Whites')
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    That's their pic of one and it looks pretty similar to yours! :)
     
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    Thanks, and I knew what morph he was. I actually ran across it on that exact site.
     
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    Lol, that is actually a really awesome story, your teachers seems like a great guy, congrats on the sand boa :D
     
  13. lizardgurl87

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    Okay, cool! :p I just realized he was a morph and wasn't sure if you knew, since I don't think you put it in the original post. It's always cool they have sites like that, where you can see all the morphs :)
     
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    Yeah, when you have the fun teacher, things are pretty good.

    I was reading their caresheets and ran across that thread. And I think I did, I said anery towards the end (I cant spell it right so I just say anery). And if I ever say something that may sound harsh, I dont mean it in a harsh tone. I would be texting my friends and they would be wondering why I was mad, and I just want to tell you, if I meant it in a harsh way I would post something that would make you know.
     
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    Okay, you can't really ever be sure the tone or anything online or especially in texting(which is why I don't text). So, it's all good! :p I must've not noticed if you put he was an anery, which would be the shortened name of that morph. But, I'm not even good on morphs, so if I did see it, I probably didn't know what it meant or overlooked it anyways-the only reason I put the full morph name is since I copied it from the website. :)
     
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    ITS SO HARD TO SPELL!!!:confused:
     

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