Reminds me of a boa I let slip away years ago and always regretted. I think you will find the red on the side increases with time and the snake retains a yellow on the back.

My guess is that it is genetic and probably recessive, but you've got a lot of work in front of you to prove it and a lot of people that will think you are crazy. If it is like the boa I sold for Ben Siegel years ago and always regretted not buying, then it is not a salmon, and that red on the sides is only going to increase in the next year or so. I don't know what will happen after that.

Maybe it is just a really nice boa, but if you have any inkling to try to prove out a trait, I wouldn't let that one go. I'd read everything you can on the blood boa trait, not that I think they are the same, but I bet they have the same form of inheritance.

Good luck. Let me know 6 years from now when you have the F2's if it is a autosomal recessive form of hypererythrism as I think that one is.

Bryant King

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