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Crawl Cay dwarf boas, currently lumped in with Boa constrictor imperator come from a single sand cay off the coast of Honduras Central America, this cay has an area of approximately one acre and is divided into mangrove, grass and bare sand,with the sand occupying about half of the cay, the island is also inhabited by humans and dogs. Currently there are around eight wild boas left on the cay and they occur nowhere else. I obtained my Crawl Cay boas in the eighties and have had great success in breeding these animals, I am currently working with normal; hypomelanistic; anerythrystic; superhypo; tangerine line; granite and ghost Cawl Cay Boas, all produced at my facility, as yet the tangerine and granite lines are unproven but hold great promise for the future of dwarf boa morphs.

Crawl cays have similar colour changing abilities to hogg island and many other insular locality boas, colour changes can be ue to temperature, mood and day/night cycle, typically at night these animals are extremely pale, with hypo's being much paler than any other type. Typically neonate Crawl Cay boas are difficult to get started feeding on rodents as in the wild they are almost exclusively lizard feeders, however once started they become non problematical feeders on defrost rodents and will reach adult size in aroud four years, at which age they are also sexually mature. Size range is typically three and a half to four feet long at four years, though I have a fifteen year old male that is almost five feet long, in 2006 I had a three and a half foot female give birth to nine healthy neonates without problem, she was four years old.

In captivity they do well if kept on standard Boa constrictor imperator principles with regards to temperature, though a more humid hiding place is enjoyed by these snakes, while they do have a reputation for being aggressive, they do(generally) calm down with age, although the occassional hissy fit can be expected at anytime, biting is usually a last resort.