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topnotchboas
at Wed Mar 9 17:14:15 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by topnotchboas ]
Pete bred the two original albino males to several normal females, as it says on his website:
"...I bred the two males to several normal females in 1990 in the basement of my townhouse. Two females produced a total of thirty-two heterozygous babies in June of 1990..."
Then on the coral page he states:
"...The coral albino boas originated from one of my original hetero bloodlines I produced in 1990 or 1991..."
From that I conclude that Coral Albinos are a BLOODLINE. In order to have a true coral albino and represent it as such you must know for sure that it originates from this original het that Peter Kahl produced in 1990 or 1991 (there were many produced in the litter, corals originated from ONE of them).
The reason I brought this up is because I know of somebody representing at least two of his boas as Coral Albino / Coral Sunglow boas. The sunglow he calls a "coral" sunglow was produced by the albino female that he calls a "coral" albino. The problem is that the albino female came from and was produced by Jeff Ronne, who admittedly has never worked with the coral line...ever. This person explained to me that because his albinos, originating from Jeff Ronne, had nice color and some coral characteristics that they are corals and he can represent them as such. From that I thought, are corals a bloodline or a phenotype? If they are just a phenotype then I could see where he was coming from. But if corals are a bloodline you have to know for sure they came from that line to represent them as such.
What is your opinion? If everyone started calling their albinos corals because they subjectively thought they looked like one I would think the market would become flooded with non-coral bloodlines. I cant imagine how that could be legitimate. Correct me if im wrong here, lol.
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Thanks! Ok, I think I have it figured out... more...opinions welcomed... - topnotchboas, Wed Mar 9 17:14:15 2005