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There have been many new boa morphs every year for quite a while. But what I wanted to know is for most people to consider it a true morph how many generations would it take to assure it was a new morph. Say you have a boa with a total differen't look, you breed it to something totally unrelated and you produce 11 of 13 that look almost the same as the parent. The two that dont are a common morph thats dominant" (Albino)". Do you believe you need to breed one of the offspring to prove the genetics?. Just wanted alittle input! Daniel Culbertson.

I would think that its simply proven when its proven. If you have a abnormal looking snake and bred it to a normal and produced a litter of half norms and half with the trait i would guess that you would have proved its genetic and polygenic at the least. If you were then to breed two of them togther and produce 25% norms 50% with the trait and 25% super appearing animals then you can be pretty confident that it should turn out co-dominant. If one of those supers is bred to a normal and produces a litter of 100% with the abnormal trait then you proved its co-dom. Its a morph.

If you bred an abnromal snake to a normal and produced a litter of all normal appearing animals, but then bred them together and produced somewhere around 25% showing the abnoraml trait then i would say you proved its ressesive. Its a morph. I guess the biggest problem is that these genetic percentage equations don't prove to be exact but rather estimations. Not always acurrate which can cause problems.

And i'm speaking my personal opinion of whether or not "I" would purchase the snake as a morph rather then stating the actual standards the top breeders go by becuase i don't know them. Of course id never have the money to purchase one of these fantasy snakes im talking about but hey... i can dream.
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2.3 Bearded Dragons
1.0 Pastel Ball Pythons (NERD Line)
0.0.1 Water Monitors
1.1 Pastel Red Tailed boa Het. for Albino
1.1 Yellow Ackie Monitors
And Counting...

Something like this!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you posted that pic on here before? Whered you get it? Have you bred it, interesting looking snake. Like a calico or something.
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2.3 Bearded Dragons
1.0 Pastel Ball Pythons (NERD Line)
0.0.1 Water Monitors
1.1 Pastel Red Tailed boa Het. for Albino
1.1 Yellow Ackie Monitors
And Counting...

I have had pictures of her on here before. And she produced a small litter of 13, 2 Albinos 11 66% hets. With all 11 hets looking more and more like her!. It's just something I thought was kind of cool. Daniel Culbertson.