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Hey all, I was looking over some pics and found this Anery that I have labled as BCLANERY....does anyone know who owns this boa? I can't remember...could it be Cagle? Does anyone know if this animal is Type 2 or what it's genetics are? Thanks for the help, Andy Federico

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it is an Anerythristic B.c.longicauda

Hey I had also just thought of that....thanks Andy
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I think the BCL was for BC longicauda...if I'm spelling it right...but I still don't know much about it...so if anyone can help....Thanks Andy
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Whoever that is. They posted a pic of that back in January.

Jason Gonzalez

It was posted by SRX. As I recall he/she is an anerythristic Longicauda. The boa shed and became the snake in the pic. I believe it was simply a normal appearing anery longi and then became an amazing anery after a shed. The anery gene in longis definitely varies from the Type I gene in Colombians. Anery longis don't "brown up" as Colombians do. Because of this, anery longis usually get better looking as they mature. That is a beautiful boa.

Phil Goss

This is a possible het. anery longi. I'll post pics of my anerys soon. SRX's is definitely different.

what exactly did you mean by this? Is it a 'Type 3' anery? That statement is confusing to me. Beautiful animal regardless!

Caden

I'm not labelling anything. I am stating that the longicauda anery gene acts differently than the Type I Colombian gene. Anery longis keep their blacks/silvers/greys and actually gain more as they mature. This happens with some Type II anerys as well (see below pic). 99% of Type I Colombians turn brown and almost appear to be normal, drab Colombians as they mature. Maybe the longi anery gene is different from both, but I do not know of any breedings that have been done to prove this. Anerys are just like any other morph. Sometimes you just get amazing animals. Maybe they are genetic. Maybe they are not. The amazing thing about boas is that the breedings of these animals is not a perfect science. Sometimes things happen that we cannot explain. It keeps this exciting and keeps new blood coming into the hobby/industry. Jerry Conway had the perfect example. He had a normal red candoia that shed one day and lost 99% of it's color. Now it appears leucistic. Perfect white all over. He has not proved this trait to be genetic.

Phil Goss