So I've kept snakes of different varieties for several years, but have never tried breeding anything. My pet boa, who I've had for 3-4 years has been the best snake I've ever had, so after consideration, I decided really like the boa color morphs. Especially the sunglow/ghost/moonglow/snow family of morphs.

I was planning on buying a female this year, and a male next year to go with her. I was trying to find a pairing that would produce several interesting morphs out of one paring. My initial thought was crossing a Ghost het albino with an albino het anery (or alternatively Sunglow het anery with anery het albino). I liked these pairings because if my genetics works out, they should create 8 distinct phenotypes. The only problem is the starting snakes are fairly pricey for those parings. I also considered taking an albino het anery and crossing it with a triple het moonglow which would create the same phenotypes in less ideal proportions.

Any thoughts or suggestions about this plan? Any other combo's that would create similar morphs with less initial investment (still living on student's budget)?

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• What should I start breeding? - awesomo6000, Tue Feb 10 13:27:36 2009
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