Sharon Moore is the Boawoman. She is one of the nicest Boa people on the planet by the way, is one of the true pioneers of Boa Constrictor breeders. I believe she produced her first baby Boas in the 70's before I even owned one. She and a fellow named Ed Stone are the only two Boa people that are still in the hobby that produced Boas back that far that I am aware of.

Sharon was producing these "Carmel Hypos" at least 10 or maybe 12 years ago. She sent me photographs of them way way back of litters of babies that had a small number with that clear difference from the others. I believe she kept all of them from the early litters. Those were the days when we Boa breeders were pretty unsophisticated regarding genetics. Simple recessive was a concept that most of us could comprehend, but I never heard the word dominant or co-dominant until around 1997 or 1998. This was more than ten years after the father of all Hypos, Dr. David Hardy, had been producing them using a female he had personally collected in Panama in the early 1980's. We learned what dominant meant in regards to the Orange Tail/Salmon Hypos.

That being said, Sharon produced few additional babies not knowing exactly what to do to make it happen again. I am 99% sure that Sharon was doing group breeding so she did not know who the father of the original "Carmel Hypos" was. It has been a long road for folks getting these wonderful animals.

Nobody knows what the potential is with these kids yet. What if this gene was infused with T-Positive Albinos? What would result? What if it was put together with the other more widely known Hypo gene? What would happen? Again, nobody knows those answers yet.

I have two females that I received directly from Sharon Moore about 10 years ago. One of those females is gravid now. She may or may not be a het. There is an outside chance that she could be. Who bred her? Well, one of those Carmel Hypos from the litter she had in 2001 is mine and he bred her this year. She is due July 24th and is looking good so far. We are hoping she is a het but will be content to just produce hets. Next year I plan to breed him with a Hypo and make Double hets for Hypo/"Carmels". We shall see... I am not sure but he may be one of these little guys in the photograph below:

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