Other WWW Resources

This page contains links that may be of interest to Sand Boa aficionados.   Included are links to Care Sheets and Other Information, Breeders, and Herp Indices and Link collections.   I try to check them occasionally, but let me know if you find a dead link!

Know of any pertinent links to add to this page? Please email me.

Sand Boa Care sheets:

• My care sheets
  • Housing Sand Boas
  • Feeding Sand Boas
  • Breeding Sand Boas
• Denise Loving's Sand Boa Care sheet
• Bruce Miller's Black Sand Boa Care Sheet
• Snaketamer's Kenyan Sand Boa Care Sheet
• VPI East African Sand Boa Care Sheets (by Dave and Tracy Barker)
• Reptiles Etc. Kenyan Sand Boa Care Sheet
• Dr. Neil Chernoff's web page - excellent review of his experience breeding Calabaria.
• a few of German links (I don't read German, so I can't tell you what they say!)
  • Kenianische Sandboa
  • Ägyptische Sandboa (Eryx colubrinus)
  • Eryx colubrinus loveridgii, Kenia-Sandboa
  • A page about African Boas and Pythons

  - includes links on Kenyan and Egyptian Sandboas and Calabaria

• A Japanese Sandboa page

No, I don't know what this one says either, sorry!

Other Sand Boa Information:

• Kingsnake.com's Rosy and Sand Boa Forum

- a great place to ask questions of other sand boa keepers!

• Fieldherper's Rosy and Sand Boa Forum

- another great forum for asking questions and learning!

• The EMBL Reptile Database page for the Boidae

- A nice site with a species list and background information with links

- For the Erycinae, scroll down to the genera Charina, Eryx, and Gongylophis

• John Hollister's Egyptian Sand Boa Page
• United Arab Emirates Reptiles and Amphibians Page

-information on Arabian Sand Boa (E. jayakari)

• Natural History of Kuwait Page

- information on Arabian Sand Boa (E. jayakari)

- in Arabic, but with an interesting series of pics of wild jayakari

• VPI Pythons

  Lots of good info on the Erycine species they carry

Other Erycine Information

• Rosyboa.com

- "the basking spot for the Rosyboa enthusiasts"

- a well put together page with information on Rosys in captivity and the field

• Rosyboas.com

-another very informative page about Rosy Boas.

• All About the Rubber Boa

  - Ryan Hoyer's rapidly evolving page about the Rubber Boa in the wild and in captivity

  - definitely the best Charina resource on the web!

Breeders and Dealers

The following is an alphabetical list of links that lead to web pages of breeders of reptiles who offer Sand Boas for sale. Many of these pages have pictures of their breeders and offspring. Inclusion of a link here is not intended as a recommendation. I do not know and have not used most of these sources, I simply have collected these links off the web.
I have not included links to commercial importers of Sand Boas, but if you are looking for wild-caught adults, try on of the herp indices below. I, of course, assume no responsibility for any dealings you may have with any of the sources linked to this page.

This list is woefully incomplete and will be updated as I discover new sources. If you breed/carry Sand Boas with any regularity and would like your web page to be linked here, please email me.

• Arco Iris Herpetoculture

  - East African Sand Boas

• BHB Enterprises

  - Rough-scaled and anerytheristic and normal East African Sand Boas

• Captive-bred Wildlife Foundation

  - Desert ("Turkish") Sand Boas (E. miliaris)

• Cherryville Farms

  - normal East African Sand Boas

• Glades Herp

  - a dealer of wild caught and captive born herps.  Often has Sand Boas in stock

• Giovanni's Snake List

  - East African, Rough-scaled, Spotted and Indian Sand Boas

• Herpetological Institute for Scientific Study

-  East African (amelanistic, anerytheristic, snow, normal), Baluchistan Sand Boas (E. j. persicus)

• Petsnake.co.uk

-  East African and Spotted Sand Boas (E. jaculus)

-  this breeder is in the U.K.

• Rancho del Las Tortugas

  - Indian Sand Boas

• Redding Reptiles

  - the largest producer of Black Sand Boas (miliaris). 

  - Bruce Miller also produces Kenyan (albino and snow), Arabian (jayakari), and Saharan (muelleri) Sand Boas.

• Reptiles of RA

  - East African, Indian, Rough-scaled, Tartar and Desert (miliaris) Sand Boas

• S & N Reptiles

  - Kenyan, Indian, Rough-scaled and Indian (E. j. johnii) and Baluchistan Sand Boas (E. j. persicus)

• Southwest Wisconsin Reptiles

- East African, Indian, Spotted, Rough-scaled, "Russian"(=Indian - E. j. johnii ?) and Desert Sand Boas

• VPI Pythons

  - East African, Rough-scaled, Indian (Brown), Saharan, and Arabian Sand Boas plus Calabaria - excellent page!

WWW Herp Link Pages

• Kingsnake.com - the web's premier herp site!
• The Basking Spot
• Herp Index
• The Herp Mall
• HerpTiles.com

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