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What is a Blood Boa?

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Posted by: boaphile at Wed Jul 1 09:01:53 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by boaphile ]  
   

What is a Blood Boa?



I have thought about this for a long time and have some ideas I thought I would put out there. So here goes.



Blood Boas are not the most intensely red Boas out there. In fact the red on several bloodlines far surpasses the red of Blood Boas. Most are more orange while some are more yellow than red. Blood Boas have a unique way of revealing their colors that sets them apart and distinguishable from non-blood Boas.



Boas have colors that I believe are achieved through a layering process. This process will leave many colors distinct from each other. This is not the case in Blood Boas. Blood Boas have a blend of all the colors on the animal. Let me try to explain; it's sort of like using a silk screening process to create an image. When you are done you have a wide range of colors that are separate from each other. You can create an image with widely varying colors throughout the image by laying on those colors in a multi step process. However, if you were silk screening the color onto a Blood Boa, you could use all the different layers you want, but only one color of ink would be used with the only differences being the intensity of the color applied. Within Blood Boas you have one basic color or tone with varying degrees of intensity of the color revealing themselves. Blood Boas are really single color animals not diverging from the basic tone of the over all animal. You even see it in the case of an Albino Blood. Same color shown in varying degrees of intensity.



In non-Blood Boas when the colors are produced that make the pattern we see on the animal, there is incredible variation of those colors. It’s like a painter who has scores of colors on his pallet that he uses to paint the Boa. In the case of the Blood Boa, for whatever reason, when the genetic blue print comes together, it is as if there is the same painter prepared to do his job but his pallet is covered with a wide range of different intensity of color, but it is the same tone of one basic color creating a recognizably different animal. The Blood Boa.



I do think that we can impact the color that we will see in Blood Boas in the future. Bringing more red color to the project will necessarily produce redder Blood Boas. At least that is my hope. The other thing that would be cool to do to Blood Boas would be to make them less muddy as they get older. The Bloody Salmons that I have seen have made some improvements on this. So other than removing all the black as in Albinos, how do we make Blood Boas with less black influence? A T-Positive Blood would be cool. A Paradigm Blood would be great as well. How about a Prodigy Blood Boa? Hhmmm... Jungle Blood Boa? There are many options with years to make them each happen. The future is bright for the Blood Boas for sure and I am looking ahead.



This is a female Hypo Jungle Het Blood:






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