Every year there seems to be more interesting occurences of genetic paradox's...they don't always have immediate answers.My first reaction to the news of the patternless Harlequins was,"What in the *$@ does this mean!?!"(among several other expletives which I will leave to imagination ) I've always felt that the first thing to do at the onset of any anomolous occurence,or,results within a breeding project,is to repeat the process,second would be to think of backcrossing the anomoly to either,or,both parents,(separately with opposite sexed offspring if possible,a male back to the mother/female back to the father,etc...)I'm very happy & excited for Brendan,but,also intrigued by what will happen when I breed the two F3 sisters!(???)I tend to analyze things realisticlly,and,I honestly do NOT think that both of the animals he bred were heterozygous for a genetic patternless boa...I also don't (realisticlly) expect to pop out patternless boas when I breed the females...What I do hope for is more extreme variation! I think,based on what we've seen so far,that there is a measure of unpredictability here & my plans are to continue to show the results as we stumble over trying to describe them...can you imagine a patternless solid orange "hypo"?! or, a patternless T positive albino?

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• Here's what keeps my brother up at night... - Rainshadow, Wed Jun 15 10:55:55 2005
• YUP....... - ghireptiles, Wed Jun 15 11:00:36 2005
• RE: YUP....... - ecmorrell, Wed Jun 15 13:13:07 2005
• DOH!!!! HHELLLOO!!! Phew.. that thing is too much for words!! more.. - bcijoe, Wed Jun 15 11:23:05 2005
• Question..... - mdc, Wed Jun 15 11:37:15 2005
• *LOL*...That's the... - Rainshadow, Wed Jun 15 12:19:06 2005
• I didn't know...... - mdc, Wed Jun 15 12:41:03 2005
• Some thoughts...? - wetceal, Wed Jun 15 14:08:35 2005
• RE: Some thoughts...? - zenzinia, Wed Jun 15 17:21:07 2005
• Hi Celia... - Rainshadow, Thu Jun 16 02:07:02 2005
• More thoughts... - wetceal, Thu Jun 16 10:02:14 2005
• Another excellent post Celia... - Rainshadow, Thu Jun 16 11:01:58 2005
• RE: I tend to agree with Celia on this theory....np - Locolizard, Wed Jun 15 15:28:24 2005
• I agree with Zenzinia... - Rainshadow, Thu Jun 16 00:08:19 2005
• RE: I brought up the same question myself Matt....more - Locolizard, Wed Jun 15 13:04:35 2005
• Hi Mark... - Rainshadow, Wed Jun 15 13:26:17 2005
• Personally, I dont see how ANYONE could down talk this project! Again .... - Ji_, Wed Jun 15 14:18:39 2005
• RE: Hi Tim...more - Locolizard, Wed Jun 15 15:25:48 2005
• Well... - Rainshadow, Thu Jun 16 12:15:08 2005
• Outrageous! This came from 2 normals?? n/m - Ji_, Wed Jun 15 11:56:13 2005
• Harlequin x unrelated "normal".... - Rainshadow, Wed Jun 15 12:42:50 2005
• Very interesting! What a great project ... CONGRATS! n/m - Ji_, Wed Jun 15 14:12:10 2005
• The eyes are great ... - EricNL, Wed Jun 15 13:27:39 2005
• Awesome! - StonedReptiles, Wed Jun 15 16:25:45 2005
• A horrible example of a photoshop'd picture.............. - JohnLokken, Wed Jun 15 19:38:58 2005
• RE: Simply awesome Tim! Do you have pics of the parents you could show?? - ajfreptiles, Wed Jun 15 23:44:36 2005
• WOW THAT IS AWESOME~~~~ - BoaRepublic, Thu Jun 16 00:22:39 2005
• I TOTALLY AGREE! Who cares what they are...they're amazing & I want one! - LindaH, Thu Jun 16 09:57:02 2005
• Genetics aren't my thang, so I'm not even going to touch that, BUT .... - Amanda_Burke, Thu Jun 16 18:09:56 2005