The south Brazilians seem to have a “freak gene”, they can produce all kinds of wild stuff. Mine frequently produce this type of pattern. I have also gotten this from Bolivians. It appears to be genetically reproducible. I bred a female Bolivian with this trait to a normal but thin saddled male. Slightly less than half of the offspring showed the trait (see pics below), so it may behave in a “codominant” fashion. I should have a better idea in about a month. I bred two animals with this trait and the female is gravid. Unfortunately, she took longer than I would have liked to ovulate, so I put another male in that doesn’t have the trait. So I still won’t know for sure, but at least we’ll have a better idea if the trait is indeed passed on. I’m really excited about the litter, because the parents have awesome coloration, and also maxed out at a small size (the female is six feet, the male five).
Mother of the previous litter:

One of the offspring:

Another offspring:

Female that is gravid now:

Father (hopefully):


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• KILLER pattern... - Barry Miller, Sun Jun 18 23:23:21 2006
• OMG, that snake is AMAZING... - Spardawolf, Mon Jun 19 08:30:16 2006
• What pattern? Very nice! np - PGoss, Mon Jun 19 08:43:10 2006
• RE: OUCH!!!!!!!! - ajfreptiles, Mon Jun 19 12:55:31 2006
• RE: KILLER pattern... - Randall_Turner, Mon Jun 19 13:33:32 2006
• One of my south Brazilians, more... - Barry Miller, Mon Jun 19 18:55:34 2006
• RE: One of my south Brazilians, more... - Randall_Turner, Mon Jun 19 19:03:50 2006
• That is a stunning boa...Very nice! - michaelburton, Mon Jun 19 19:37:50 2006