Midnight - Anerythristic Brazilian Rainbow Boa

[MoonlightBoas]

Rather than take pictures using my usual background(my desk). I built a homemade light tent and decided to try it out on my Female Anerythristic Brazilian Rainbow Boa Midnight. Let me know what you think.



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[blindfireak40]

I know some people don't really care for anery morphs; I say those people have just been looking at the wrong snakes!!! It's incredible to me how photos of anery's look like a regular snake photoshopped into greyscale. Still have all of the qualities (Iridescence, patterning, etc)...I love anery corns, and I REALLY love the look Midnight's got going on! Can't wait to see some Ghost BRB's come from ya though ;)

[marvelfreak]

Looks like the tent worked pretty good. Sweet looking snake. May i make one suggestion try using a brighter light or a second light might help show the iridescence along with it's color better. You got the color really good, but if you could catch the iridescence of it to in the picture, it would really help show just how beautiful this Anery BRB are. IMO hope it helps.

[bladeblaster]

I like dark snakes, but I have to say I prefer the normal in this case

[MoonlightBoas]

I appreciate the input. I'm planning on adjusting my light tent setup slightly, but I'm very pleased that the photos are pretty accurate to the snake's actual color. Adding one more light and tweaking a couple things should do the job.

Capturing Brazilian Rainbow Boa's iridescence can be challenging. You need perfect lighting, and the camera at just the right angle. Although I prefer the color of "Normal" BRBs, the great value of Aneries comes when you combine them with Hypo or Albino genes. You can also breed Aneries for Pearl, Bullseye, and other pattern morphs. I'll be thrilled when my Ghost project comes to fruition. Regardless of that, they look pretty cool in their own right.

[bladeblaster]

I appreciate the input. I'm planning on adjusting my light tent setup slightly, but I'm very pleased that the photos are pretty accurate to the snake's actual color. Adding one more light and tweaking a couple things should do the job.

Capturing Brazilian Rainbow Boa's iridescence can be challenging. You need perfect lighting, and the camera at just the right angle. Although I prefer the color of "Normal" BRBs, the great value of Aneries comes when you combine them with Hypo or Albino genes. You can also breed Aneries for Pearl, Bullseye, and other pattern morphs. I'll be thrilled when my Ghost project comes to fruition. Regardless of that, they look pretty cool in their own right.

yeah will be cool to see the combos :)

I think with BRB morphs seeing in flesh is going to be the key

[ladyjustice33]

Looks good to me!!

[millertime89]

any good sites that explain the many BRB morphs? I would love to read up on them. I've found a few but they don't seem to describe as many as I thought there might be. This seems to be the best so far. Your anery seems to be a fantastic example, really dark.
http://www.as-exotics.co.uk/brb-morphs/

[MoonlightBoas]

If you have any questions on BRB Morphs, I'd be happy to answer them to the best of my ability.

[sassy_snake_lady]

Lovely. Really nice pics.


any good sites that explain the many BRB morphs? I would love to read up on them. I've found a few but they don't seem to describe as many as I thought there might be. This seems to be the best so far. Your anery seems to be a fantastic example, really dark.
Brazilian Rainbow Boa Morphs | AS-Exotics (http://www.as-exotics.co.uk/brb-morphs/)

as-exotics is where I bought my BRB from and she is ph anery :D

[millertime89]

If you have any questions on BRB Morphs, I'd be happy to answer them to the best of my ability.

I was just wondering what all the different morphs were and if they were just bred into prominence through selective breeding or if, like certain BPs, you would end up with one morph by breeding two different morphs.

[MoonlightBoas]

The current Brazilian Rainbow Boa color morphs are Hypo, Anery, and Albino. These can be combined for more variations in color. For example, Hypo + Anery = Ghost, Albino + Anery = Snow, Hypo + Albino + Anery = Moonglow. For pattern morphs there are Pearl, Bullseye, Eclipse, Stripes, Aberrant, etc. The color and pattern morphs can also be combined.

[leosmith2]

awesome I love the Anerythristic coloration

[ladyjustice33]

awesome I love the Anerythristic coloration

I knew you would babe!!! Thought about that as soon as I saw this snake!

[Snakesitter]

I have a few clarifications/additions to the morph discussion. I do kinda follow this topic too, you know...for some reason or other. ;-)

One, to the best of my knowledge, albino has not yet been proven. It should be soon, however.

Two, Ghosts are already on the ground. Not many, but they exist.

Three, Calico is also in development.

As a final, general caution, be careful of certain sites that claim to list all the morphs. Many of them mix in speculative or unproven traits and claim them as full morphs. Just because a single animal has an interesting trait does not mean it is reproducable.

I hope this helps,

[stephanbakir]

Stunning snake.

[Cripton805]

Hi. I'm new to the forum and I wanted to know when these Anery traits begin to really express. I adopted a BRB from someone that wasn't really caring for it anymore and during the past year it has lost ALOT of coloration. It now has no red and hardly any orange (Very minimal scales). It looks more brown compared to this one and white, very similar looking. It's approx 3-4 years old and I plan on maybe breeding it to see if it really is an anery or just a weird colored BRB.

I read somewhere that it can produce another morph if bred with a hypo. Which would that be? I cannot find any pics of any.

Thanks.

[marvelfreak]

Hi. I'm new to the forum and I wanted to know when these Anery traits begin to really express. I adopted a BRB from someone that wasn't really caring for it anymore and during the past year it has lost ALOT of coloration. It now has no red and hardly any orange (Very minimal scales). It looks more brown compared to this one and white, very similar looking. It's approx 3-4 years old and I plan on maybe breeding it to see if it really is an anery or just a weird colored BRB.

I read somewhere that it can produce another morph if bred with a hypo. Which would that be? I cannot find any pics of any.

Thanks.
Could you post a picture? Sound like you might have a Colombian rainbow boa.

[shaunyboy]

your tent worked just fine,as i think the pictures turned out well

cheers shaun

[MoonlightBoas]

Hi. I'm new to the forum and I wanted to know when these Anery traits begin to really express. I adopted a BRB from someone that wasn't really caring for it anymore and during the past year it has lost ALOT of coloration. It now has no red and hardly any orange (Very minimal scales). It looks more brown compared to this one and white, very similar looking. It's approx 3-4 years old and I plan on maybe breeding it to see if it really is an anery or just a weird colored BRB.

I read somewhere that it can produce another morph if bred with a hypo. Which would that be? I cannot find any pics of any.

Thanks.

The Anery color morph in Brazilian Rainbow Boas is immediately apparent. Although it's uncommon, I have seen a couple instances where BRBs have a color change later in life. It's unlikely that your snake is Anery, but please share some pictures of your BRB before and after when you get a chance. Take it easy.

[Cripton805]

Here's the only picture I have on my phone. And I apologize that it's not a great one. I need to take some more and I'll post some when I get a chance.

I know it's a BRB for sure. I know what a Colombian Rainbow is. Look at the pattern itself. I have pretty good experience with more common snakes except morphs. It's just puzzling that it lost it's color.

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/2669/100mediaimag0518.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/268/100mediaimag0518.jpg/)

[MoonlightBoas]

Do you happen to have any pictures from before the color change that we could compare with your current pictures?

[Cripton805]

Do you happen to have any pictures from before the color change that we could compare with your current pictures?

Sadly, no. I didn't really pay much attention to it at first. It didn't happen dramatically until the last 2-3 sheds. Before that, it just looked like any typical BRB.

I'll post some better pics this week. When I get out of work and teaching kids soccer it's usually dark out by the time I get home. :nerd:

[Snakesitter]

Cripton, there are two different types of color loss with which I am familiar. Both tend to hit adult animals. Neither, however, produces an anery: just normal adults that, through genetics or illness, have lost their color. I too would be interested to see any before and after pictures.