So far the opinions about the Super Motleys are base upon four breedings as far as I know.

1)Motley X Normal = Purple
2)Motley X Motley Sib = no Purple
3)Motley X Motley Sib = no Purple
4)Moltey X Motley = Purple

I realize that there are a lot of Co-Dominant genes that have been discovered in Boas. Some produce visual Supers and some Genetic Supers. There are also several recessive genes that have been discovered in boas as well.

Based upon the breedings above absolutely nothing is known except that the genetics for a Purple Boa exist and it is producible.

The first breeding of a Motley X Normal has two possibilities. The first possibility is extremely rare and almost unheard of. A Super being produced from a Co-dominant X Normal. The second is that both parents were carrying a recessive gene that produced the Purple, which is very common.

The breedings between the Motley X Motley Siblings proves nothing at all. If the Purple is a Super Motley then of course no Purples would be produced. If one of the parents was not carrying a recessive gene that caused the Purple Boa then no Purples would be produced. The results would be the same in either case.

Since the Motleys were started with one Boa and if it was carrying a recessive gene, then it would only pass that gene onto half of its offspring. Only 50% of the offspring would carry the recessive gene. Further breedings of these offspring would result in even fewer odds of the recessive gene being pasted on.

If the gene causing the Purple Boa is recessive, it would be total chance matings of any Motley or Motley Siblings that would produce the Purple Boa, because the chances that a Motley or Motley Sibling was carrying the recessive gene would be the same.

Four breedings is basically nothing to base much of an opinion on. Unfortunately the odds of producing a Super or a recessive morph are the same and the results from the above breedings could be caused by either one. Until a Purple Boa is bred to completely unrelated normal we will not know or if a Purple is bred to a Motley then most of the clutch should be Motleys and quite a few Purples too. Even then, the ODDS GODS, can really play tricks on us. You could breed two recessive hets together and get all Homo recessives. You could also breed a Homo recessive to a Het recessive and get no Homo recessives at all, but in both of these cases the odds are better than a Super being produced from a Motley bred to a Normal.

The CA Motley could either add or subtract from the possibilities of the gene being a Super or recessive. I will not be surprised if many of the CA and CO recessive and Co-Dominant genes prove to be compatible. I am surprise that basically none of them have been tested against each other to find out. The CA and CO are very similar in the big scheme of things in Mother Nature.

If I was to guess if the Purple is the Super Motley I would guess “YES”, but based upon what we know so far it would be a total guess. I would not be making any suggestive claims one way or another.

In the long run, it wont really matter. If it is recessive they will be able to be produced like Albinos in significant numbers eventually. In the short run, if a Purple is a Super then it will speed things up and you will be looking at Motleys instead of Normal hets which would be desirable.
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