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tough theoretical question for the local purest. lets say you produce a anery for this example in a local already know for their anery look. this population looks anery but isn't have a true anery. if your breed it and produce more anery babies but the popular opinion is that they are just super looking normals (non-anery) of a population that looks anery. Do you just take the props for having the best normals of said local or do you cross it something else and then breed those babies together to produce anerys from the crosses to prove that your local pure animal is real an anery morph of that local? just wondering how people feel on this subject in theory?

Are you speaking of any of the Belizian island boas? Like Cay Caulkers? Or of your beautiful Longi's?
In my opinion, if you have an animal as rare as a Cay Caulker, you probably wouldn't have an interest in crossing it with another locale or ssp. Same goes for a Longi.
Also, why couldn't you perform that same experiment within the locality?
But that's just my opinion.
jb
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Jonathan Brady
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forgot any non-local animals. say the animals are known for a "look" but aren't real that "look" like...
Belize island boas are know for looking anery
hog are know for looking hypoish
argys are know for black and white aneryish but aren't anery
etc...
you produced a true morph from wild caught animals. if it is a morph your animals are now worth X times value of normals if people think it it just a really example of that local you maybe get an 100 bucks more for your new local pure morph when the same morph in animals that don't have that "look" sell for thousands more.

I don't like cross personally. some are cool looking and I don't discount that they are pretty and that a lot of hard work goes in to them.

so the question is you have proven your morph with in the local but give that locals looks people have just written it off as a good example. so do you do a cross and prove that it is genetic or what?

Sometimes you have to do, what you have to do, to make your point.I understand what your saying.Even though I like my Morph Boas there are still certain lines I don't personally want to cross .Lar M

Micah, I can only hope you are talking about those Anery Longi's you have...they need to be crossed into just about everything! Morphs are Morphs. I would find the best spear shaped marked headed Good looking Hypos out there and start there! I only wish I had taken that pair from you way back when. I think that Anery Longi look of high contrast white and black could only make better ghosts and better anerys. Maybe use Jungles or Arabesque for the head shape spear...but please do.

If you are talking about something else then just forget about my post...but if I had those that would be my direction.

Andy Federico
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Not talk about longi's, and i have talk to a lot people about doing longi cross, alot people think i should do sunglow cross. I have decide to never cross my longi's. I do plan on doing ghost longi's in the future if I can pgot my hands on one of hardings pure hypo longi's. but nobody seems to know whats going on with the hypo longi's.

It's kinda like asking about Carpet Pythons and the Jaguar trait . No real answer other than you are going to do what you will with your animals.

I, personally, wouldn't mix up BCL, but that is just me. If you are going to do it though(and I am sure someone else has already tried), I would suggest a selective breeding that makes both animals in the mix better, not just different. So, my longwinded response would be IF you are going to mix any BCL with another boa, then I would go for producing a solid black boa; either one of Pete Kahl's IMG boas or a CA/Arg Super Motley.

But I understand you aren't planning on the LongiX. The above is just an example to an example. Short and sweet of it, IF you are going to do it, try to better what you start with.