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.....the whole stripe morph? I understand that it is a recessive trait, etc. What I do not get is that sometimes I see ads that have an animal showing a stripe, labeled as stripe, then I see another ad showing an animal with a stripe, labeled as het for stripe. I understand if one of the parents are striped and the other parent is not, then that is how you get hets. I hope this was not too confusing and thanks for any help.
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Strictly Serpents
Monty Montalbo/Niels Berg
619-602-4908

0.1 01 Albino
0.1 02 Poss Super Sunglow
0.1 03 Albino
1.1 04 Arabesque het Albino/Albino Arabesque
1.1 04 DH Sunglow/Sunglow
1.0 05 Motley 50% het Albino
2.1 05 DH Coral Sunglow
0.1 05 Coral Sunglow
and a bunch of other stuff.

First off, not all striped Boas are genetic - sometimes they just pop out of an average litter. Some are caused by incorrect temperatures, or temperature fluctuations.
As far as het for genetic stripes with striping -- It's somewhat dependant on the stripe length, and location. Smaller tail stripes can often occur in any litter, and doesn't neccesarily mean that it's a genetic stripe, but it could be one, or it could just be a het with connected tail saddles. I've seen ads for "striped Albinos", and the picture shows two tail saddles joined - that's not a striped Albino to me. I hope this helps, David
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I'm just the snake room janitor

It's really just a way to be safe on your sales. If it's not a big obvious striper, but a little bit of a stripe you call it a het and if it proves to be a straight up stripe your customer is happy regardless. From what I have experienced with stripes and hets some of the "hets" that have maybe just a few blocky saddles throw babies like a stripe. An actual striped boa could be anything from blocky saddles to a full stripe. Just better safe than having someone buy a boa as a stripe and it throwing babies like a het would numbers wise.

Bottom line is the homozygous striped boa is not always a defined visual look.
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Ed Lilley, www.constrictorsnw.com
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