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What do u think about this hipermelanistic morph?
Could it be a popular morph?
Which could be the price for a new born?

I've seen some of this boas in a German site (http://www.boanet.de) so I guess this also could be an inheritable trait. According to the friend who sold him to me, this animal came from Central America, was bred by a Mexican Biologist, then he sold most of this line of animals to European collections, except for this animal and probably a couple more remained here in México. It's an adult male which I think it already bred 2 large females so I hope to have some het babys this year (recessive gene).

in the pics the hiper and one of my albinos

if the trait proves to be genetic i think you may be able to sell them for a fairly good price. recessive mutations seem to warrent a much larger price tag as they are obviously more difficult to produce visualy differnt offspring.
i am no guru, but i would speculate that this trait if proven genetic should prove to be fairly popular. the reason i feel this way is because there seems to be a trend to develop an all white boa. this can be seen with the popularity of the snow boa. i would think the most logical thing for you to do since you also have an albino (if the abino is female, since the hypermelanistic is a male) is to make double hets. theoretically you could produce a boa that is white with very little pattern due to the hypermelanism. additionally an animal who is both hypermelanistic as well as a t positive albino would be very interesting looking.
i think if the trait proves to be genetic you should do very well with them.

on a side note it would be interesting to breed it to a hypomelanistic boa to determine if the mutation is on the same gene (if they canceled each other out). i dont know how marketable it would be but it would sure advance the knowledge of boa genetics. good luck with him and i would love to hear more of your plans and their outcome.

>>I was trying to post this message in some subforum like the one in the ball python forum (Ball Python Business Trends & Issues) but here is not anything like it.
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>>What do u think about this hipermelanistic morph?
>>Could it be a popular morph?
>>Which could be the price for a new born?
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>>I've seen some of this boas in a German site (http://www.boanet.de) so I guess this also could be an inheritable trait. According to the friend who sold him to me, this animal came from Central America, was bred by a Mexican Biologist, then he sold most of this line of animals to European collections, except for this animal and probably a couple more remained here in México. It's an adult male which I think it already bred 2 large females so I hope to have some het babys this year (recessive gene).
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>>in the pics the hiper and one of my albinos
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I don't know about your boa, but the one on the german site is a costa rican boa, possibly with the same mutation as a leopard boa. Unless you bought your black boa from them it is probably a leopard boa from mexico.

You could, theoretically, selectively breed pure black animals, starting with your possible leopard. I think you should buy a low contrast leopard and breed it to your "hypermelanistic" boa. If it turns out to be a leopard, then you could have your own line of dark, low-contrast leopards. If it turns out to notbe a leopard, you could have a new morph on your hands.

Correction: *not to be*