Jason's Jungle - Anerythristic Kenyan Project

Anerythristic Kenyan Sand Boas

Scientific Name: Eryx Colubrinus
Common Name: Kenyan Sand Boa, East African Sand Boa
Location: Tanzania, Kenyan, Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt
Size: Adults typically around 36"-40", around 400g
Housing: Adults can live in a 20-gallon (long) tank or equivalent
Experience Level Needed: Beginner, Novice

The anerythristic is a much under-appreciated morph IMHO. They are stunning. An initial investment in one is just slightly higher than a normal sand boa. The anerythristic gene can be thought of as almost an inverse-albinism gene. An albino can't produce dark colors where an anerythristic can't produce colors, in particular, yellow or orange. The resulting morph has the the black of a normal Kenyan but white where the orange would be. They are one of the two components of creating the snow morph. This is one of the things we're most known for. We've been producing some of the highest quality anerys for 7+ years and are on our 3rd generation of high-white, clean anerys.

AN-F-8
This girl is a record breaker. I produced her myself from breeding AN-M-2 to a high-white female we used to have. She was the best of the litter so we held her back. Her first litter was a whopping 18 babies and in 2009 she broke the record book with 32 live babies!

AN-F-14
This is another girl that I produced several years back. 2010 will be her first year breeding but she's already 550g+.

AN-F-15
Yet another that I held back from a previous breeding. She's around he 500g mark and is being bred in 2010.

AN-M-2
This is our proven anerythristic male and with any luck he'll be breeding all 5 of the girls above this in '07. He's bred numerous females for us over the years. In '06, he was our lone male and bred 8 females, 6 of them had litters. As a lot of anerythristics get older, their white fades and gets black spots. As you can see from above, AN-M-2 is a real looker, his white has barely faded at all.

'Hypo Anerys'

AN-F-9
This one has some interesting things going on. I'd call it a 'hypo'. The black isn't black at all, it's brown. I bred her to a normal anery male in '08 and produced normal looking offsrping. She has problems keeping weight on as she doesn't like to take big meals. Skipping her again in 2010 and hoping for the best in 2011. I HATE not being able to breed animals in my fun little projects :)

AN-M-5
This male puts my 'hypo' female to shame. A customer down in KY brought this to me. I'm super excited about breeding these two in '09 and hopefully reproducing the 'hypo' variant.

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