my common boas... poss. het for weird ;)

these are a 1.1 pair produced by genetic gems in the uk. theyare littermates and came from a really dark mother, so are possibly heterozygous for this trait. i plan to breed them to see if i can prove it out. they have really dark tails that i hope is a heterozygous marker.
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Lovely boas m8, very nice dark patterns.

some nice abberant markings there

thanks guys, i'm hoping that the darkness and abberancy are signs of something cool geneticlly.

Very nice Boas. Is there anyway we could get some clearer shots enabling us to appreciate them that bit more

yeah sorry for the not so good pics of the female, the clearer pics with me wearing the black tee are the male (female's pics were taken a few days later as she was in shed) gimme a bit i'll actually link a vid up of them.

i used to have a male like that,
pitch black tail bloches and a dark orange/ brown,

he was nice looking sold him as i thought he was a she but turned out he was a male....now i wish i kept him,

hope something happens for ya throught some breeding hopefully maybe a new unknown trait...

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vid of the 2 boas.

cool just watch the vid..

You dudes have to stop using these cell phone cameras...I'll be needing glasses soon...squint, squint!! Oh and before you twenty somethings say anything...age has nothing to do with it!!

not a cellphone camera mate, proper camera, just rushed shots.

Duuude!...so no excuses then!!!

hmm.....my camera fone takes real good pics, i remember bout a month ago i got some really good shots..
in fact all my pics have been takin on a phone.....

Just watched the video, those 2 look fantastic

just wtached the video,certainly gives a better look at these 2 boas,very pretty unusal animals.very rich colour with the black tails looks great.
will be great to see how young from this pair turn out.at worst you are going to have lots of similar looking babies.

you know to prove these out you will need to breed the male to a normal female and then breed back the young to the parents to be sure what way this gene works if it is a new gene.

Do you know how many out of the litter turned out looking like your pair?

no, what happened was that there 2 are brother and sister off a (i think wc) melanistic female... soo if it proves to be simple recessive, then that would make these 100% het for that gene. by breeding these back together my hope is that 1/4 look like therir mother.
if 2/3 of the normal babies look like these and prove to be the het carriers, then that would make these guys visible hets, similar to het granite in burms.

if genetic gems are doing test breedings it will be good to see what they make of these.

visable hets means co-dominant in my book,like pastel royals are het for super pastel etc,etc.

Have you got any pics of the adult female maybe a link to some more info?

Phil wrote:visable hets means co-dominant in my book,like pastel royals are het for super pastel etc,etc.

kinda like motley x motley = super montley
salmon x salmon =super salmon
lol jus putting it out there....

well what i mean is simple recessive lol... but for example, with eht granite burms, you can tell normal het albinos from their pattern. i'm hoping that this darkness with these guys is kinda the same thing if that makes sense.

ah....yes i know what you mean,
i read a simmilar thing on boas, het albinos may have less pagments than a normal...

naja-naja wrote:well what i mean is simple recessive lol... but for example, with eht granite burms, you can tell normal het albinos from their pattern. i'm hoping that this darkness with these guys is kinda the same thing if that makes sense.

They are fantastic looking boas,really looking forward to see the outcome.

Two really interesting looking boas Ted, not boas you see everyday... now don't bring shame on them again by taking such bad photos

How are these two doing for you now mate, they must be gatting up to breeding age/size now?

theyr not gattin anyway lol
3.5 and 4.5 foot, so maybe for 2013 i'll be looking at babies (2012 if they shoot up but thats unlikley)