I shall present an overview of the Pacific boas, covering descriptions and distribution. Then I shall review the common and scientific names of Candoia and their validity. Basic care and maintenance topics will include caging, temperature, humidity and feeding. The breeding of Candoia involves cooling down periods, cage mates, multiple males, color morphs and gravid females. The ease of sexing all Candoia species will be discussed in detail.
Neonate husbandry includes feeding newborns, assist feeding and caging.
I will also talk about the possibility of new species awaiting discovery. School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand. They subsequently produced 255 eggs that were incubated at Victoria University. Only 88 of these hatched successfully. Ultimately, the surviving adults and their progeny will be returned to rat-free habitats in nature.