Jeff, we have seen it happen both ways now. Two animals that don't show a trait producing animals that are dominant and two animals that somehow got matched up that were recessive for the same trait and producing something new. I am hoping for the second scenario in my case. I aquired two siblings to the "patternless" animals produced by Brendan Magee. I have seen this animal in person as well as the birth pictures of the entire litter. These were unrelated animals that produced a litter with 4 patternless and 5 normal appearing siblings with 7 slugs. Unfortunately due to bad luck all have been lost except one patternless and the 2 siblings I have. All of these are females and the father was also lost. I believe that it is genetic but can only hope that it turns out recessive and the odds were just off due to the small number of offspring and high percentage of slugs. These days are definitely exciting in the world of boas though. Care to make a prediction here Jeff?









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• OK, Scoria Boas; So how did this happen? - boaphile, Sat Jun 9 09:51:29 2007
• Arabesque boas - Viandy, Sat Jun 9 10:11:13 2007
• Actually - giantkeeper, Sat Jun 9 10:56:03 2007
• RE: OK, Scoria Boas; So how did this happen? - whitneywee, Sat Jun 9 10:30:27 2007
• That does make more sense to me... more - boaphile, Sat Jun 9 13:01:12 2007
• Like a modifier gene? link. . . . - skyslinger, Sat Jun 9 13:11:05 2007
• Further clarification and more ???s - boaphile, Sat Jun 9 18:29:42 2007
• Jeff - giantkeeper, Sat Jun 9 10:54:17 2007
• There have been two - boaphile, Sat Jun 9 12:09:59 2007
• I - giantkeeper, Sat Jun 9 12:57:27 2007
• That darn lightning... - skyslinger, Sat Jun 9 11:02:13 2007
• Don't tell anyone but I'll bet you $100 - boaphile, Sat Jun 9 12:24:11 2007
• Oops I forgot to use my spell check - boaphile, Sat Jun 9 12:50:18 2007
• I'd be bettin against myself... - skyslinger, Sat Jun 9 12:59:46 2007