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I often see boas listed for sale as "stripeline", "het for stripeline", normal and albino. I usually fail to see the "stripe". Am I missing something or is it referring to the miniscule stripe sometimes seen on the tail? If so, why did they earn the name stripeline if it's because of a piece of stripe usually not visible to the naked eye. When I hear stripeline I picture a fully striped animal. Thank you.

i am not positive but fairly sure (after a quick google research) that stripe line referes to the genetic stripe mutation Peter Kahl works with. i most often see 'striple line khal albino' or het for it.
hopefully someone will confirm or correct this.
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- Jason F.

I'm not an expert here, but I have noticed that the stripe line albinos generally speaking hold their color (especially red) and contrast much more than the regular albinos. This alone makes them worth the extra $500 or more in my book. I know there are very nice albinos that are not from the strip line, and these are also more valuble to me.

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Within this bloodline there is a single gene mutation (stripe) and polygenic attributes (higher contrast/color). Because of the polygenic influences, just being from this bloodline (without the single gene mutation) adds to the value.

Here are some pics of my 2 stripe line albinos (female alb. het stripe and male alb ph stripe), motley het albino het stripe male, and sunglow ph stripe male.

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Take Care,

-Ryan Homsey

www.topnotchboas.com

I still can't get over the scalation on that Albino. Besides that, the Motley and Sunglow are AWESOME!

according to stuff I've read but can't confirm is they are good breeders, throwing larger healthy litters.

So I'm thinking that even percent hets for stripeline may also, even if not actually het, be good breeders?????
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

the Bloodline of animals originated from Peter Kahl's Recessive Striped boas. He bred this Recessive stripe into his Albinos and produced the double homozygous Striped Albinos. The Albinos that are realated to this bloodline tend to have improved color and contrast. The Hets also produce nicer than average Albinos. So in the ads you are seeing the seller is reffering to the bloodline of their animals, and the fact that they should have better than normal results.

I agree, the stripe line makes some outstanding high contrast albinos. I had a few questions on the breeding of them. If you breed a het stripe het albino to a normal albino what do you get? How many of the babies will be stripe line and will you be able to tell the difference between the normals and the stripe line? Or what about a stripe line (not het not albino) to a normal albino? All of the babies will be het for albino, but will they all be het for stripe? And will they all produced stripe line animals? Just wanted to know if both parents had to be a stripe line animal for all of the babies to be stripe line? Any info would be great. I know I'm not the best at understanding genetics. Thanks.
Mike Burton

here is where it is important to label things properly, Striped, het Stripe, or Stripeline.

The Stripe mutation is recessive. So to get all STRIPES, both parents have to be STRIPED.

If you bred a DH Striped Albino to an Albino you would get Albinos, Albinos het Stripe, DH Striped Albinos, and Het Albinos. You would not be able to determine which animals have the Striped gene and which do not. This means who is het, and who is not.

The Stripe mutation seems to influence the BLOODLINE, so ALL babies from this pairing I would consider Stripeline (Others may not). This is also why it is VERY important to say what the parents were.

Albinos 100% het Stripe, and Striped Albinos were the first to be noticed to have the color associated with the bloodline. Tom Burke is an exceptional example of a breeder who used the bloodline as part of selective breeding. His High Contrast Albinos are not het Stripe, but they are traceably related to the bloodline.

Michael Burton