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I love the "differently" patterned snakes...COOL!!!!
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Paula
"ALWAYS LEARNING"

Have a GREAT day!!!!!!!

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DOUBLE OUCH!!!!!!!!!! Andy
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That is an awesome looking animal. Is this one you produced? If so have you seen alot with the similar low saddle/high side stripe patterning? Regardless that one is awesome.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

The south Brazilians seem to have a “freak gene”, they can produce all kinds of wild stuff. Mine frequently produce this type of pattern. I have also gotten this from Bolivians. It appears to be genetically reproducible. I bred a female Bolivian with this trait to a normal but thin saddled male. Slightly less than half of the offspring showed the trait (see pics below), so it may behave in a “codominant” fashion. I should have a better idea in about a month. I bred two animals with this trait and the female is gravid. Unfortunately, she took longer than I would have liked to ovulate, so I put another male in that doesn’t have the trait. So I still won’t know for sure, but at least we’ll have a better idea if the trait is indeed passed on. I’m really excited about the litter, because the parents have awesome coloration, and also maxed out at a small size (the female is six feet, the male five).
Mother of the previous litter:

One of the offspring:

Another offspring:

Female that is gravid now:

Father (hopefully):

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Best of luck with the gravid female. I hope the first male was the successful one.

That marbled one you pictured is really really nice. I think I might have to look hard into these now. Last thing I needed to do lol.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

Michael Burton