I am not a boa breeder (Just own one Argentine Boa as a pet), mainly just a admirer, but I see and understand what your saying.

I am suprised at how many people working with Jungles and Harli's are planning on doing the same pairing. My question to them is "aren't you going to have the same issues as the OP is having?" While the results might be wicked awsome, the underlying problem is are they Jungle or not?

When those of you who have True Swedish Line Jungles breed them to your Haliquins and all the babies come out looking Jungle'ish, won't that be a problem? I guess there are those out there who won't care if its a Jungle, or a Harli or a JungleHarli, I am not up to date on the boa world, but for me, If I was wanting to purchase a cool looking abarent boa, I would like to know if its a Jungle or a Harli....but maybe people don't care.

I don't think David was knocking the Boas that where pictured, who can say anything negative about those beauties...they are awsome...but like the OP mentions, they are "Possible" Jungles...the only way to know...is if someone bought one and bred it themselves...right?

I could see someone buying one, breeding it, producing abarent offspring, and then calling the offspring Jungles...when they might not be...because of the abarent nature of the Harli's...

I understood what David was trying to say, I don't think he was trying to say anything bad about the boas themselves, but you do have to sit back and see the overall picture....when breeding two abarent boas together, where 1 is an actual genetic morph (CoDom) and the other isn't the results can open a can of worms for the breeder. Heck it happens with just Jungles bred to normals, how many posts have we seen where the "Possible" jungle looks pretty darn normal. Or Actual Jungles that look pretty normal that through offspring that look totally jungle.

Best of luck everyone on whatever pairing you do...

Is this a Jungle or a Harli?

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Amanda Kingsbury & David Kendrick
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