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Is this a Het trait?

Can anyone post a pic of some babies or adults?

If two boas were bred and each of them had a parent that was a
stripeline would all of the babies have stripes?

What kind of stripes, on their tails, or dorsal stripes?

There are two points to the Kahl stripeline:

The actual striping is a recessive trait for tail striping so both parents must carry the actual gene to produce a striped baby. Std genetic odds apply, two het parents = 25% homozygous for stripe, 50% het for stripe and 25% homozygous for normal. Since you can't tell the hets from the normals, each is a 67% het.

Also, stripe line individuals (I believe females) have been known to throw larger litters. So even if not actually het for stripe, quite possibly still gonna throw those larger litters. I don't have any actual numbers to back that up, only conversations with Pete.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
19.29 BRB
13.18 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

albino male & a DBL Het for Sunglow female that each have one
stripeline parent.

So they should each be 100% het. Is it all or or just 50% of
the babies that will have stripes?

BTW, thanks for being so generous with your knowledge about
boas on these boards. I was a purist for years but all of these gorgeous morphs have really seduced me....

NP, Unfortunately there's not enough info to give you a correct answer. "each have one stripeline parent" Does that mean each has a striped parent? Because of the known productivity of stripeline related animals, The non-striped offspring are often still referred to as stripeline animals. Sometimes they may not carry the actual stripe gene at all.

If each had a striped, stripe line parent, then each is a het and about a quarter of the babies will be striped.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
19.29 BRB
13.18 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

From what you said about your boas, it doesn't sound like they are Het Stripe. You said they each had a Stripeline parent? Well when someone usually labels Stripeline, they are signifying the bloodline because it is known to produce nicer than average albinos.

The mutation is Stripe, not stripeline, so that was this sign on that one. For example, I have a stripeline Albino, her dad was a possible het stripe. The odds of her being a het are slim to none, but she is still stripeline in reference to bloodline.

If you see the names, line, polymorphic, etc. they are typically reference to traits that arise in related animals. Not simple mutations.

Also, if they were hets you would have paid for an Albino Het. Stripe and a TH Stripe Sunglow.

Tricky semantics...

I thought stripe line referred only to boas
with actual stripes or that passed that trait...

Obviously it's an older picture. Both are from the Kahl stripe line which is recessive.

Amie

just one out of my litter look like that...

A sunglow with a big dorsal stripe like that would be sweet...