Chuck,
given the commonly used/accepted label of "hypo" in boas (and that is after all, the context here) to mean a drastic reduction in melanin, specifically in the "tail" area and an overall lightening throughout the body transmissable in a statistically predictable manner when bred, your choice to call that animal a "hypo" is at best a mis-label and at worst, well... i'll leave that alone. You've seen hundreds if not thousands of boas and i think you know when you're actually looking at a nice CLEAN animal or something worthy of a denotion like "hypo" (again, especially in a community such as this one when that term really does MEAN there is an inheritable gene there).
To illustrate my point, let's examine the word "bad". Now, if I were to say to Joe Schmoe that boas are bad. Joe would take that to mean that boas are not good. Now, if I were to say to another boa enthusiast (who knew I love boas) that boas are bad. That enthusiast is going to agree and we'll probably have a conversation about experiences, etc... Now, if we're talking to Joe Schmoe who's never been to a boa classified site before and we say that an animal is hypomelanistic, he'll grab a dictionary and figure out that the animal in question has less black than a "normal" animal. Now, if I tell that same boa enthusiast that an animal is hypomelanistic, they're expecting to see something akin to a salmon/orange tail/etc... (even in the BCC form "from Suriname" which you CLEARLY do not have. And to say anything to the contrary is wrong.
Also, in your post above, you say "hypo to the normal form". Chuck... ummm... what the hell is that? Please, man! You don't think that the "normal" form includes that animal? On this forum alone, we see more animals that look like that then we do speckled specimens! So, that ain't flyin around here my friend.
As for me being unhappy w/ life, no. I've just been raised to do what's right and it chaps my @$$ to see others acting to the contrary. Calling a boa a term that it's not (especially one that implies reproduceable traits in a predictable manner) be it hypo or jungle or anery or whatever, is NOT RIGHT. And no matter how you take that context, you know what I mean. Good luck selling your nice, normal, clean, BCC.
jb
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Jonathan Brady
"Sarcasm is angers ugly cousin" -Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) in "Anger Management".

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