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Hi you know Ive been meaning to ask this for a while. I took this photo I think it was 3 years ago at the Daytona beach show. It was of a striped boa at Tuwachua serpents table. I bought a "het" female from him that was about 50% striped supossedly from this male. Does anyone have any information on this male? My female is large enough to breed now and I was just wondering what to expect. I just wanted to know if anyone knew of this type of striped boa and if it was ligit or not? If anyone has knowledge on this snake answers would be appreciated thanks!

unless you have a male het. from the same strain, you will get all normal babies that are 50% het. for the stripe strain your female carries. What are you going to breed with her? Your best bet would obviously be a male carrying the Kahl stripe gene. Maybe that is the gene she carries. Then you produce 25% striped babies if bred to a het., or 50% striped if bred to a phenotypical stripe. If your female's gene produces in a dominant fashion, you could breed her to any male and get striped babies. If the breeder guaranteed she was het., that would imply a recessive trait. Do you know what your snakes siblings looked like? Hopefully someone else will have specific info on the father of your snake. Best of luck with her.

Phil Goss

Well when I talked with him he said it was simple recessive or he "thought" it was, but he said that about half of the babies that were born from this male were striped, just not as much as the Father. So I figured maybe its co-dominant and not heterozygous? So I bought a female striped "het". I figure that maybe someone has bred babies from this male by now? Dont know, just figured I would ask. Im not sure what Im going to breed to her yet, shes a back burner project, maybe my hypo-harlequin though.