If I understand Jeremy he is alluding to the "Hypo" mutation and the "Motley" mutation occuring on the same loci of the same allele. Meaning that although they are different morphs they line up on the same genetic location. That would be very possible because the same thing is happening with 5-6 different co-dom morphs in ball pythons (White snake complex) and it is also happening with 2 recessive morphs in boas (The Paradigm project).

That being the case the "Red Devil" is impossible. There is only room for 2 doses of a gene, one from the mother and one from the father. Meaning that a boa could only be Hypo/Motley, Hypo/Hypo or Motley/Motley. Chromosomes come in pairs, there can't be Hypo/Hypo/Motley or Motley/Motley/Hypo or anyother combination. You can see it in action when you breed a Hypo/Motley to a normal. The Hypo/Motley parent can either pass the Hypo gene or the Motley gene but it can't pass both and it can't pass none. Even if you bred a Hypo/Motley to a Hypo/Motley the only possible genetics for the babies would be Hypo/Motley, Hypo/Hypo or Motley/Motley.

If what Jeremy and others have noticed is fact and not funny odds then the "Red Devil" was a funky premature baby and not a Motley/Motley/Hypo because that would be an impossibility.

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