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Raven01
at Tue Jul 6 09:21:24 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Raven01 ]
While the siblings and half-siblings do have junglish patterns, they don't have the jungle coloring, and they are definitely not from the Swedish Jungle line. In regards to the reverse stripe, while he does look similar to the tigers (I think the striping I've seen on them so far is much thicker/bolder), the pictures I've found of the reverse stripes look identical. I guess future breeding trials will help determine what he is for sure, but neither my friend (the owner) nor myself want to misrepresent the snake as being something it is not. So short of breeding him to a legitimate tiger female and producing super tigers, we can't make that claim.
All we do know for sure is that the sire to both her litter and mine is a genetic carrier for aberrant babies, as both females were unrelated to him or each other. I'll try to get a picture of him in the near future, but other than a slightly elongated tail saddle, he's a basically a normal looking boa. Her female, who gave birth to the reverse stripe, is an exceptionally nice light colored female but is also otherwise normal. My female which gave birth to my litter this year is also a basically normal looking boa, with the exception of one elongated tail saddle (will try to get a picture of her showing that, too) and some nice coloring. We'll know more about the genetics once the neonates and juveniles we have are of breeding size/age and can be bred back to one another. We're hoping for a 'super' of the form they now display, but a trait displaying the variable percentage striped results (as many of the striped lines do) would still be good.
Raven
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RE: here is another shot - Raven01, Tue Jul 6 09:21:24 2004