boa morphs

[jossh27]

I was just wondering why there aren't as many boa morphs as bp's? I searched Google a bit and only found one link to a pied boa... I know nothing about genetics and breeding but i find it hard to believe there aren't a bunch of those slithering along!?

[Aaron_S]

Boa base morphs include:

Hypo
Albino
Anery
Anery type 2
Motley
leopard
Jungle
Caramel
Azabache
Arabesque

I'm sure there's a few I'm missing as I don't know them all myself but there's a good number out there.

Morphs are solely built on what comes in from the wild.

[jossh27]

So with pythons, are there more base morphs to work off of which made odds of getting a pied higher?

[Aaron_S]

So with pythons, are there more base morphs to work off of which made odds of getting a pied higher?

I don't really understand the question.

Pieds just came out of the wild. It was one of the first few to brought into captivity.

[jossh27]

Oh my mistake i thought they were morphs

[Aaron_S]

Oh my mistake i thought they were morphs

I don't think you understand what a morph is.

Morphs are something genetic that's different than the "wild type" or "normal" type.

It doesn't matter if it's a morph originally found in the wild like the pieds, albinos, pastels or spiders or a "designer" morph that is a combination of them like the "albino pieds" or "bumblebees aka pastel spiders".

So yes pieds are morphs. The founding animal was plucked from the wild decades ago and reproduced in captivity.

So to kind of answer your questions, part of it is that there's been more base morphs brought in from the wild than the boas have.