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Hi guys and gals, many of you remember last season when I posted the Bleach Back babies...... since then I’ve had many, many questions about history and availability of these animals. Let me tell you how this project started. In the year 1999 I stumbled upon the most Yellow female Col. Boa I'd ever seen at a local pet store. She was 8 feet long and had retained a bright clean color as an adult. I'd never seen her equal so I quickly purchased her and smiled all the way home! I bred her that year to a normal looking Col. male and she produced 28 live babies. As babies they all looked fairly similar to me.... but as they got to be six months old some started to look very different..... they were turning the same yellow as momma! This is the sad part of the story...... I fell on hard times and like a BONE HEAD I sold momma and all the babies. Well not ALL the babies...I kept three! Thank Goodness! I didn’t have a digital camera back then so I have NO good pics of the momma that started this. But I have pics of her F1 and now the F2 babies! The pics in this part of the post are her F1 babies. You can see to females from the same litter and how different the coloration is becoming, then as adults how AWESOME the change! These photos are true color, not touched up...

An F1 bleach back with normal sibling.....

tail shot!

The bright yellow female in the pic. above is named Brooke. She’s about 7 foot in that pic. with that color! She had babies with a normal looking male thats het for stripeline albinos. Almost exactly half the babies were dark and normal looking and the other half glowed in the dark! These babies were AMAZING to look at! This is when I knew this was going to be a special project... thus BLEACH BACKS! Some of the Bleach Back babies not only had the super lite coloration but also crazy saddles.... these are some of the bright babies 8 months

You can see from the F2 how much the trait is increased!!

a few more pics of the babies as yearlings...

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Im still learning KS posting!! I wanted to share this exciting project with all you snake lovers! I love the high yellow clean animals coming from this line. I hope to produce more Bleach Backs this season.... take care and have a great season everybody! Dan.

I love that look.
John
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"To be the best..........You must lose your mind."

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Love em'...Those are awesome! Good eye for seeing the potential of that project...the world of boa morphs advances with fore-sight like that! Great job! Andy Federico
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Please post more pics of bleach back baby. Thanks Andy
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That snake is very cool looking. I really hope you can produce more. A salmon bleach back would be a sight to see. Sweet project.
Michael Burton

Daniel, Those girls look awesome. I'm really impressed and can't wait to see what happens down the road. Keep us posted. Take care. Andrew

Daniel....I think you are on to something.....awesome looking boas!!!....FYI- If you would like to copy multiple pictures you can do so and put it in one post. Just copy the image, paste and hit enter and copy and paste the next image below it....

Take care-

Brett

I was trying to figure that out, sorry for the lame extend-o-matic post!

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Those are some incredible looking bci's! 8) I would love to purchase some boa's form that line. The color and contrast is very different yet so very beautiful on those baby's. The mother in my opinion is nice as most T positive boas! Again get project you got there! hope to see from that line! Thanks for sharing.
Take care,
Jake
email.. salmoncolors@hotmail.com

And thanks for your thoughts, I love the look of these animals!