This has to be the number one question asked to me in email...

I would love to share MY OPINION and let others chime in with there own results and thoughts...

Hypo Motleys...

The hypo Motley gene is a confusing one, much like the paradigm and the Blizzard project. The hypo and the motley gene are located on the same locus within a Chromosome. Just like the paradigm and the (blizzard) kahl albino and type 2 anery. It is very confusing and there is still a ton of grey area... I have had many chats with Tracy Barker among many others trying to figure out excatly what is happening and no one knows for sure. I have done a lot of genetics work and this one still gets me. We have bred hypo motley to normal over 15 times and never had anything except Hypos and Motleys. Same thing I have bred hypo motley jungle to normal and produced salmons, salmon jungles, motleys and motley jungles. Strange and interesting... And this is a very large sample size... To confuse matters YOU CAN PRODUCE NORMALS... OR EVEN A HYPO MOTLEY CAN POP FROM A HYPO MOTLEY TO A NORMAL... This is true and has happend a small number of times. All of those animals were born with health problems kinks etc and died soon after birth or were still borns (that I am aware of).... Why??? Who knows. With some of these fluke animals Tracy believed a third Chromosome dropped which would explain why these flukes don't normally survive. Prime example the red Devil... Should not happen but did and of course was also a stillborn.

??? Or if they live they tend to have issues and short lives. When chromosomes are added or taken away by chance the result is not good for the offspring.

We also have discovered the blizzard project to have a similar result. You breed a kahl strain albino to a type two anery and the results are DH Anery2/ Albino... If you breed DH to DH... You should produce Albinos, Type 2 Anerys and Blizzards... Just like you do with type1 Anery snows. But this is not the case. Again these genes fall on the same locus within the chromosome.

So instead we get albinos, anery2 and pos DH's from a DH pairing...

Next we move to the Paradigm... Boawoman caramel bred to a Sharp Albino... BAM... We have DH BOAWOMAN CARAMEL/ SHARPS... And to top it off they are visual DH creating a new morph (paradigm) that is in fact just a het caramel het sharp... I LOVE BOA GENETICS...

We then take a Paradigm and breed it to a normal and get all normals... But each normal is only het for one or the other... But you take a paradigm to a sharp and you get paradigms and sharps.. COOL STUFF... Ball pythons may have more genes then boas, but they sure aren't as interesting. LOL...

We have only scratched the surface of what is to come. I am glad we have a community of people that all share a common love for these snakes. We can share our truimphs and failures and learn from one another.



UNITE OR DIE... WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS BUT OUR PASSION FOR BOAS UNITES US TOGETHER...

Best of luck to everone this season...



Josh Ketchum
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Josh Ketchum

Sunshine Boas

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