Mr. Freak

[NagyReptiles]

A very cool "freak" boa we have the oportunity to work with. Believe it or not this dude came from a Sharp to Sharp pairing.


0005 by NagyReptiles, on Flickr

0004 by NagyReptiles, on Flickr

0001 by NagyReptiles, on Flickr

[EL Ziggy]

Wow, that's one beautiful boa.

[NagyReptiles]

Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy

Wow, that's one beautiful boa.

Thanks Ziggy!

[Aaron_S]

SO what's the story? This is the only "normal" in the litter? Rest were all sharps?

[NagyReptiles]

Originally Posted by Aaron_S

SO what's the story? This is the only "normal" in the litter? Rest were all sharps?

I'm not sure he definitely isn't normal, he looks like a paradigm but it shouldn't be possible from a sharp to sharp. You only get paradigm's from sharp to bwc.

[Aaron_S]

Originally Posted by NagyReptiles

I'm not sure he definitely isn't normal, he looks like a paradigm but it shouldn't be possible from a sharp to sharp. You only get paradigm's from sharp to bwc.

Excuse the ignorance. What is bwc? Is it possiblw to have a sharp het bwc?

[NagyReptiles]

Originally Posted by Aaron_S

Excuse the ignorance. What is bwc? Is it possiblw to have a sharp het bwc?

No worries Aaron, a BWC (Boa Woman Caramel) is a type of hypo that looks like a T+ albino in boas that works in a single recessive manner. So to answer your question can you be a sharp het bw? No you cannot, that is how the first paradigms were created. Basically Boas was trying to make double het BW Sharps but got paradigms so after some breeding trials its assumed that they are allelic and thus because the genes reside on the same loci you can't be sharp het bw

[Aaron_S]

Originally Posted by NagyReptiles

No worries Aaron, a BWC (Boa Woman Caramel) is a type of hypo that looks like a T+ albino in boas that works in a single recessive manner. So to answer your question can you be a sharp het bw? No you cannot, that is how the first paradigms were created. Basically Boas was trying to make double het BW Sharps but got paradigms so after some breeding trials its assumed that they are allelic and thus because the genes reside on the same loci you can't be sharp het bw

Cool beans dude. I'm very familiar with alleles in ball pythons so I get it.

So you have a very interesting project! I'm jealous. Boa "dinker" projects take like 1 litter to prove out. So many babies.

[Tsubaki]

That is really cool, wonder what this animal can produce he's nice looking too!