All these "suckers" who pay "outrageous prices" damn well know their boas will muddy up as they age. Its not like the average joe who has no interest in reptiles shows up at a swap and decides he wants a snake, but instead of getting the $75 columbian gets the $1000 super hypo.

Do you think people pay huge amounts of money on a snake to keep it as an adult and stare at it through the cage? Uh no. The high majority of these people spend the money they spend in hopes of producing more boas like the parent.

Anyone whos willing to spend big money on a "morphesis" knows damn well by that "morphesis" whether or not they will muddy up or not.

I personally think the boa world is more exciting then the ball world. Everyone in the ball world is crossing morphs to make new morphs, eventually u run out of morphs. Of course people are crossing morphs in the boa world, but theres alot of polygenic breedings occuring as well, for more color, or less black, for aberencies,

These traits will getter better in the years to come because they are inheritable and so can be layered and built up generation after generation. I can't wait to see what kind of pastels, hypos, pastel albinos, sunglows will be avilable thirty years from now. At this point these types of boas should be truly shining due to selective breeding, whereas most spiders will look just as they do now.

Then you can also intorduce these traits into actual morphs. Theres alot to work with.
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2.3 Bearded Dragons
1.0 Pastel Ball Pythons (NERD Line)
0.0.1 Water Monitors
1.1 Pastel Red Tailed boa Het. for Albino
1.1 Yellow Ackie Monitors
And Counting...

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