what to make of this....seems to be patternless red tail

[latazyo]

here is a website my buddy made temporarily for this bizarre snake

http://d3639621.i69.internetwonders.com/redtail.htm

what should we make of it?

it seems to be genetic, two different babies in 2 different years

[nicola_boulton]

there amazing! never seen a reduced pattern like that before. And those babies from last year(pic at the bottom of the site) are really nice and clean. Good luck with the breeding.

[Drew S]

Wow, that snake looks so...weird.

I like it :D

[BoidKeeper]

That's too bad, the pattern is what I love about a boa.
To each their own. Beauty is in the eye I guess.
Cheers,
Trevor

[Invictus]

I absolutely love the look of the patternless, and I would personally kill for one.

If it's been proven 2 years in a row, it is safe to say that this IS genetic. You won't know until you breed one of the reduced patterns to a normal boa whether or not the trait is co-dominant, but if both parents are normals, then the siblings would be 66% hets.

[Jezabel]

But from what I read, in the 2 litter he had, he only got 1 paterless in each litter, like if the parents where double het. Cause it's almost impossible staticly that it's simple recessive, ever less co dominant.

Either way, awesome looking snake.

[Invictus]

It's not almost impossible at all. I've heard of people breeding 100% het albino boas and getting NO albinos from it, just 25 normals that are 50% het. But to get a patternless 2 years in a row without one of the parents being patternless could mean that the parents are heterozygous for the co-dominant mutation, kind of like the "Fire Balls" that re het for Leucistic... Leucistic is co-dominant, and the "fire ball" is the heterozygous form.

Anyway, bottom line is, it *could* happen. It's obviously inheritable somehow.

[Jezabel]

I agree it's inheritable, I just say to get 1 in a litter of boa, 2 years in a row, it looking more like the parent are double het, like the snow, you get 1 snow on 16 boa. I thought the het for co-dominant morph are visible het, and here both parents are normal. I agree it can happen maybe once that from 2 100% het albino you don't get one but two year in a row, that really reallt unluky, since boa get so many babies.

[latazyo]

I should definitely state that this snake is not mine, nor do I possess any of the siblings...he doesn't participate on this board, so that is why I am posting herrrre

[Jeff_Favelle]

That thing ROCKS. Imagine getting Salmon or Anery (or BOTH) into that??!! Holy moly. That's up there with Moteleys! Get 'er done and figure out what's going on!! :D

[Mugwump]

Nice