My Solomon Island Ground Boa - Candoia are cool

Wanted to show you my young Solomon Island Ground Boa and talk briefly about Candoia. this video is 25% learning moment and 75% snake eye candy. These are a beautiful and underrated species of snakes in the hobby. enjoy
Candoia Paulsoni, Candoia bibroni, Candoia aserpa

[@leafystreet]

Another huge thank you to Christen at Stygian Exotics. She both produced Zephyr and provided some of the footage in this video. Show her some love on insta @stygianexotics

[@HeartsScales]

Oh! Just saw this - she is making more ground boas soon and that's who I was hoping to get mine from! All their scaley critters are stunning, to say the least!

[@dontsubside]

Omg, that's crazy, I live right down the street from Christen, I got my 1st Kenyan Sand Boa from her. I also got to see her huge collection of Candoia, Emerald Tree Boas, Corn Snakes, some Woma Pythons, and other colubrid like Aesculapian Snakes, and now some Trinket Snakes. She's really great, unfortunately she's now getting out ov Viper Boas, which is kind of sad. But I'm glad I found someone that also knows her.

[@PaulLattik]

I’ve had my Solomon Is. Ground boa, MargaritaToo (long story) since 1991, she’s 33 years old! She was 4” long when I got her, and had to feed her pieces of frozen pinkies until she was big enough to eat full-sized pinkies. Definitely a shoot-first and ask questions later kind-of snake when it come to feeding, but super chill when not in feeding mode. She’s been a very enjoyable snake to have, they require a lot of handling when they are young.

[@SupermanBB]

78 subs… now well over 700k!! Nice work!!

[@shelbythomas6979]

the attitude strike is so cute

[@leafystreet]

Haha I’ll let it slide when he’s this size

[@ciranium4190]

I just picked up an adult male candoia bibroni and hes by far the coolest snake ive ever interacted with!

[@leafystreet]

Sick! I hope they gain some traction in the hobby they’re great

[@KalishnakovPrincess]

Mine is such a sweetheart she is the cutest little danger noodle maybe 2 feet long already but still pretty small I love her personality such great snake I love ground boas !!!!

[@leafystreet]

sweet! underrated, amazing little snake. she sounds lovely

[@roblootens2994]

I know thus video is 2years old. So i was researching these abmmd found it. How is their activity in the Viv? I have a beautiful rough scale when i get to see him. Very good looking boa! Thanks

[@Cody38Super]

Subscriber 117 here, I had a very dark brown female grounder in 1992 that was the exact opposite of everything, everyone keeps attributing to these lovely creatures! She was 6' if she was an inch, ate live mice like a champ, always stayed 5'-6' up in the trees and bit the ever-lovin'-shit outta me at every available chance. Once in the face! In front of my girlfriend, her roommate and my mom no less. I really liked her the 0.5 out of 5 times that she didn't bite me when I handled her.maybe she was treated poorly prior to my picking her up in the pet store?? I'd kinda like to try again, but only captive bred........really difficult to find are they??

[@leafystreet]

Haha what a lovely lady. Great story. And yea very easy to get them captive bred these days. The footage of the adults in the vid are from the breeder Zephyr is from, she’s awesome. Thank you for the sub

[@lucasdamon8863]

I have, what I thought was a female, but turns out is a male, candoia paulsoni tasmai, and he’s roughly about 2 years old. I have been successful at taking him out without getting bit, and I have had interactions where I’d put my hand in the enclosure and he would actually come up to me, smell me, and even come on to me, but sometimes he’ll just bite no questions asked. When he’s out and in my hands though he’s perfectly fine, very chill and very calm, almost feels like a totally different snake. And I‘m glad you made this video because it shed light on their growth rate, I thought it would be like my boa imperator which, in a year and a half, has almost doubled in size, even though I don’t power feed him, so I was getting a little worried that I might be doing something wrong with my candoia, so thanks a bunch, now I know that it‘s just how they are and I can rest easy.

[@davispeltier2009]

That is such an amazing snake, definitely thinking about adding it to my collection when I’m older

[@HeartsScales]

Thank you so much for this great, informative video! I was just turned on to Ground Boas and was specifically interested in Candoia Carinata Paulsoni. This turned out to be a good resource for me to learn, and I really appreciate that ^_^ Zephyr is a cool as heck name, and he is absolutely adorable - and a beauty. I am very interested in getting one for myself at some point, so I'll keep trekkin' on in my learning journey ~

[@happydragonreptiles695]

I have 1 San Isabel, 1 Solomon Island, which are my Ground boas. 1 Solomon Island tree boa that is my favorite.

[@onitennoaquascapes]

Candoia aspera, wild caught, is very loving... as long as you're warm 🤣

[@ckjacques3660]

This is great!! I loved it. :) And thanks for sharing the love of candoia.

[@leafystreet]

thank you again #LiveLaughCandoia

[@Avocetexotics]

He is such a cutie!

[@alphabetstreams]

I am straight jealous of you. I had one many years ago, but it got out of its enclosure and disappeared. And I've not had a chance to get one again. They are so gorgeous.

[@bluenggaming9576]

I have a candoia carinata and a viper boa

[@PaulFisher]

congratulations on breaking 100 subs since this went up! your living room would be very full

[@td5744]

Looking forward to having a bunch of ground boa babies soon

[@leafystreet]

wont be from me haha. Ive heard wild stories about getting the babies going. Do you have a gravid female?

[@J0nnygoeswild]

I’m buying a ground boa today after work can’t wait

[@leafystreet]

hype. thats a great pickup

[@mannafortheears]

I've got one named Zion, though yet to be seen if it's actually a boy or not 😂 How old is your guy in this video? Mines about to be 2 years old and he's still so small that I don't feel comfortable feeding him anything bigger than pinkies, so I want to see if the growth rate really is that slow or if I'm underfeeding him (x1 every 8 days or so, some times I'll do a double feeding if the pinkies are a little smaller)

[@britishguy6153]

Look like indonesian boa : monopohon

[@kaeliemarvella]

NO WAY. I named my Solomon tree boa Zephyr because of the Red Hot Chili Peppers😭

[@vkahri]

I have a baby Isabelle Is. Ground boa. Hatched New Years Eve (so I was told). I can't get it to eat. Other than that, it's gorgeous, and barely as large as a night-crawler. But I'm at my last wits end with trying to get it to eat anything, believe me I've tried just about every suggestion I could find from various people and websites. I have not yet been able to obtain live frogs or lizards small enough to offer. That's the only thing I haven't had access to. I'm afraid mine wont make it. Don't know what else to do. ;(

[@leafystreet]

O man sorry to hear that. A snake not eating stresses me out so bad. Its partially what makes me not want to ever pair this guy up. Im sure you've tried scenting with Lizard urates or just a morning gecko tail that is from a humanly euthanized individual? have you had to force feed?

[@HeartsScales]

Did you ever get it to eat? >.< Sorry you went through this - always so worrisome when our scalies aren't eating.

[@vkahri]

@@HeartsScales Sadly no, it eventually passed away. If I try again with this species, I'll get it from a breeder who has already established it as an eater on F/T pinkies (if I get a juvenile not an adult)

[@cainmonroy4634]

where’s the best place to get these captive breed

[@leafystreet]

Stygian Exotics on Instagram. Morph Market also has them CB from time to time

[@atw196]

You should also check out viper boas !

[@obryan240]

Why would you say any responsible breeder would switch a snake over to rodents when they don't eat them in the wild?

[@TitoTitoTitoTito]

i had a trio of cb babies that never ate a thing. i may get some established ones that are now avaliable

[@leafystreet]

Theres quite a few really great breeders out there of youre looking for reccomends lmk

[@TitoTitoTitoTito]

@@leafystreet i know a few. at that time, the only babies were just ones that popped out of imported adults, and sold instantly after

[@leafystreet]

@@TitoTitoTitoTito its awesome to see it changing. and the CB are such stunners

[@TitoTitoTitoTito]

@@leafystreet what happened to orange viper boas?

[@PAiGE_317]

@@leafystreet I’m looking for recommendations on breeders please ! Lol