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hi guys - i remember when i first started i got confused by all the weird acronyms people kept posting on other forums, so i thought it may be useful to have a list available. feel free to add any i have forgotten
Snakes arb - argentine rainboa boa atb - amazon tree boa bca - boa constrictor amarali bcc - boa constrictor constrictor (red tail boa) bci - boa constrictor imperator (common boa) brb - brazilian rainbow boa ccp - coastal carpet python crb - columbian rainbow boa etb - emerald tree boa grb - guyanan rainbow boa gtp - green tree python jcp - jungle carpet python prb - peruvian rainbow boa other terms cb - captive bred cf - captive farmed ltc - long term captive wc - wild caught (or wild collected) amel - amelanistic (i.e albino) anery - anerytheristic dh - double het het - heterozygous -het - heterozygous - An organism is a heterozygote or is heterozygous at a locus or gene when it has different alleles occupying the gene's position in each of the homologous chromosomes hypo - hypomelanistic W.H.Y - what have you 1.2.3 - refers to sexed animals. in this example 1 male, 2 females and 3 unknown - male.female.unknown pk - pre killed fk - fresh killed ft - frozen thawed RI - respiratoy infection
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w.h.y - What Have You
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might be worth making this one a sticky then
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hows about adding
c.b captive bred c.f captive farmed w.c wild caught f.t frozen thawed f.k fresh killed etc? very good thread idea, Kat
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good point kat, added them
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