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johnberry
at Thu May 18 12:16:45 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by johnberry ]
Aberrant Orange Blood Boa clutch
This clutch was born 3 days ago ... my High Orange Central American female was bred by male Blood boa. I was expecting normal looking 100% Bloods(100% pure Central American, no Colombian blood mixed) as you can see (pics below) when the babies came out half the clutch are high Orange kinda like mum !!
I purchased her (from Ben Siegal) as an adult so don't really know what she looked like as a baby, but she is an exceptional iridescent Orange color. Ben tells me she came in as a Costa Rican farmed baby several years ago ... so why the Orange babies ??
The consensus is that she is either (1) het for Blood and these are Orange Blood babies (they have black eyes just like baby Blood boas, the normal sibling 100% hets don't) or (2) she is a new kind of codominant High Orange mutation and so the babies are "new morph" High Orange, 100% het Bloods or (3) She is a "new morph" codominant High Orange but her mutation works like the Blood boa mutation, so if fact these are a new line of High Orange Blood boas ...I'm happy either way 
My Blood female is due to drop in a few more weeks ... so I will compare the babies ... but of course the only way to be sure is to breed the babies back to Mum or breed her with a normal and she what the results are.
Anyway, thought everyone might like to see these. When they have shed I'll post some better pics.
Thanks, John
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 Aberrant Orange Blood Boa clutch - long - johnberry, Thu May 18 12:16:45 2006
- Beautiful litter...Congrats.... - michaelburton, Thu May 18 12:30:30 2006
- RE: Aberrant Orange Blood Boa clutch - long - ajfreptiles, Thu May 18 12:53:22 2006
- WOW!! - amiemac9, Thu May 18 12:56:22 2006
- RE: Aberrant Orange Blood Boa clutch - long - EnvyExotics, Thu May 18 13:05:05 2006
- Gorgeous litter...congrats...n/p - Spardawolf, Thu May 18 13:07:43 2006
- RE: Aberrant Orange Blood Boa clutch - long - senorsnake, Thu May 18 13:11:42 2006
- Hey John, - ChrisGilbert, Thu May 18 14:19:01 2006
- Orange Blood Boa clutch - more info ... - johnberry, Thu May 18 14:20:12 2006
- That is simply - sun_king, Thu May 18 14:40:44 2006
- Way to go, John! - GainesReptiles, Thu May 18 15:49:15 2006
- They sure look like Bloods Congrats!!! - vcaruso15, Thu May 18 16:37:50 2006
- Congrats. Beautiful babies! np - PGoss, Thu May 18 16:50:13 2006
- Thats crazy... - Psycodelic, Thu May 18 18:09:36 2006
- Nice litter...look like bloods - giantkeeper, Thu May 18 18:17:30 2006
- Awesome litter, Congrats! - BNixon, Thu May 18 18:40:18 2006
- Very nice animals! Congrats!! - BCIexotics, Thu May 18 19:27:49 2006
- RE: Aberrant Orange Blood Boa clutch - long - ghireptiles, Thu May 18 21:55:23 2006
- Wow, weird stuff - Big Congrats .. np - RyanHomsey, Thu May 18 21:56:07 2006
- Congrats John, nice Bloods!!! -Joe - bcijoe, Fri May 19 07:08:16 2006
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