Brother Nature Boas

mike"brother nature "roberts

As long as i can remember i was brining home garter snakes snakes. at age 14 i got my first snake a boa constrictor. Back then ther was no internet so alot of what i earned was trial in error.
over the years i had owend many diffrent species of reptiles every thing from snakes to camens. About 8 to 9 years ago i decided to try my hand at breeding. My fist sucsess was with bearded dragons. i produced several clutches with the 2 pairs. At this time i started collecting heavly i was buying animals on impulse if i was at reptile show and i was even remotely interested in a critter i and afford it i would buy it some times even if i couldnt aford it. Now i try to discurage this type of impulse buying i wish someone was around to set me str8 back then it would have saved me alot of grief(and cash). My next atempt to breed was ball pythonsi had 4 clutches over 2 years. By this time my collection was getting verry large. It consisted of 4 thpes of lizards and 12 species of snakes. Not long after this i decided that ball pytons were not my thing. I decided to go back to my original love boas. at the time i had 1 adult and 2 close to breeding size female bcis. I started selling of my collection to buy boas. I got my first salmon het albino from a friend who vended at the showes here in Alberta. The price tag was $1800 for him. I got him in trade but if i remember corectly i had paid over 2500 for the ball python group i traded shortly after i had a kahl albino and inported a group of snakes from the states. Id like to say i started breeding there and things went great, but that is far from the case. my first down fall was a costly one, i was useing dimmers to controlle my heating. I was down stairs and my son who was 5 at the time. turned up the dimmer to the stack of cages that housed some of my adult females. to make a long storry short the next morning i found 3 of the 4 that wer in the stack dead and the 4th died a few days later. I opted to save a few bucks and not buy a thermostat so saving $200 i literaly lost thousands. I wish i could say i got past that and moved on but thats not the case just around a year past that i was dealling with a severe alcohal problem well i wouldnt say i was dealing with it. Ultimetly it was the cause of the seperation between me and my then comon law wife, who is also the mother of my 4 children. Freom there it was a doward spiral, i lost everthing was basicly homeles with in 6 months. When u fall that hard it is extreamly hard to pic urself up. At this time i left the reptile hobby, over the 3 years that followed i worked thru my alcohal problem and got that relitivly under control(still enjoy my beers after work but not a dozen a day. Around 2. 5 years ago i decided i was stable enough to start to rebuild my boa colection this time i did it the right way. i just dont buy a snake to ad numbers to my breeding projects. I look for the best of the best. ill pay % 50 to double market value to get the right snake to fit the project. Imn up to a modest 23 boas right now. 5 ofthem are hold backs from last years pairing witch i refer to as the dinkering project witch ill decuse on this page.
And my best new news is i took custity of my 4 chidern last fall . Being a single dad with a full time job and a ever growing collection of boas is alot of work but its a labor of love and i wouldnt change it for the world.
stop by this page often as things well always be added and changing ill have some outstanding boas avalible shortly
thanks
Mike Brother Nature Roberts

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