Paradigm boas

I have thought about this happening for quite some time…I had not understood or even heard of this project at all….
Truth be known, I have been suspecting something going on in my own boas which has been leading me to think this way…

Jeff Ronne , ….I do not understand genetics at all, but I was of the understanding that each gene has a PAIR of Alleles that makes up that particular genetic factor …be it color …size…missing eyes…brown hair….. blonde hair etc…

If an animal has only one allele that is albino and one allele that is wild type, that animal is considered recessive….

You stated that Mike’s T positive is the best to date…and I agree …but how about the thought that 2 pairs of alleles actually combine to produce that look? Or maybe something like a 3 allele type gene….that gets altered completey?

I have heard a little of the 3 allele types but honestly I do not understand how they work…I guess Paul will have to fill us in on this possibility.

I had thought for some time that I had just got lucky with the particular pairing that I had done….Hypo male to Normal female….

I have noticed the T positive looks in some of my animals…they are absolutely just normals until further breedings may prove different…..I say this for those of you who may just like flaming me….but I feel that it is this understanding that has helped me understand a little more of what is going on with these Paradigms.

In the litters I produced with this particular breeding……the Blacks in both the hypos and normals are mostly browns and purples…of course this could just be wishful thinking but I took notice of what I call visual het factors…and this is what I am trying to prove out someday…until then I have never stated any of my animals are this or that but only questioned these traits…

All that being said…what I see in the T positive breedings of T pos to T pos….is a boa that looks great but then starts browning out as they age…

The best T positive animals in my opinion are those like Mike’s from basically boas….his have retained the T pos look very well….and I believe it is the result of the Sharp strain albino gene allele that is causing this scenario….

My thinking on the 3 allele thoughts are not really understood to me…and I do not know if a 4 allele interacting combo is even a reality but it seems to me that this may be the only way I understand it so far….

If you breed sharp to sharp you get sharps…Some Sharps get that very high contrst look to them ….well what if the single allele of the T positive gene was at work in those very high contrast types? Most people are going to breed to other sharp hets and sharps….therefore most likely never even hitting the combo that could produce the Paradigms….

If it was a 2 x 2 type gene combo and one of the gene alleles are missing you would only have one visual right?

Ok …now my head hurts…so just let me know what you think…and…Paul if you are out there please give more understanding to other types of possibilities…Thanks Andy Federico

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