It does mine anyways.... While I am at work, my mind seems to wander, usually about boas. Something hit me yesterday that is driving me wild just thinking about the endless possibilities of what could happen with this....

We all know Motley is a co-dominant gene. A motley is correctly described as a heterozygous motley. Breeding a motley to a motley produces the homozygous form, or the "super" motley. The "super" motley is a jet black snake with black eyes, one of my personal favorites.

On the other hand, we have a somewhat new boa that hasn't been bred or experimented with yet, in the form of the Leucistic boa that is said to be over in Brazil somewhere. This is a beautiful paper white snake with black eyes.... Lets just assume the Leucistic gene works the same in boas as it does in Ball pythons, which would make it co-dominant. The hets for leucistic would be visibly different from the normal wild type boa. Breeding a het leucistic x het leucistic would produce a homozygous form, in other words the "super" white leucistic.

But this is what has my mind in knots this morning..... What happens if we bred a homozygous motley x homozygous leucistic?????? Both of these genes have visibly "morphish" het offspring.... The offspring would have to come out as some sort of a visual double-het, and WOW wouldn't that be something to see????? We've all seen the crazy mixtures that come out of hypo/motley or motley/arabesque......

Or we can even take this a step further and breed the double het for lucy/motley to another double het lucy/motley, which would produce a double homozygous leucistic/motley..... Crossing a jet black snake with black eyes to a paper white snake with black eyes.... WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE!?!?!?!?!? Or better yet, what would we call it?????

Perhaps an oreo body with white eyes? haha. The imagination can run wild with this for seemingly a few years, I don't think we will see this happen any time in the next few years.

When it does happen, I think we should call it the "eclipse" boa.....

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