No they are not related in any way to animals that came from the Square Tail bloodline that came from Europe. Those animals were not imported into the US till around 2003 or 2004.

No they are not whatever a ladder tail is either. I have seen ladder tails sold as such going back 15 years. Literally. The first ones were offered to me by a guy name Mike Klonowski about 15 year ago. Trouble is none of those lines or any other that appeared with the "ladder tail" pattern ever proved genetic.

The Roswell bloodline is the first to have the ladder tail appearance that have proven to be genetic. They parents of the first Roswells were born in 2003 I believe to Surinam Red Tail and Albino parents. These are not related to the Roswell animals.

We do not call these ladder tails because of the fact that "ladder tails" are common in collections as a polygenic characteristic in all cases except what I described. It's a generic term for Boas with that type of pattern that has been around for a long long time. Sort of like floating saddles, or a connected pattern. We understand what those terms mean, as they have been used for many years, but they do not define a specific known mutation for us.
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