Newbie question from a ball guy. What makes the nice red or orange boas? I know about the blood and berry, but what else gives this nice color? Salmon? Hypo?
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Red Boas?
pbcrenshaw
Jun 17, 2008 03:00 PM
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beastie
Jun 17, 2008 04:34 PM
a lot of the non-morph related (like blood, etc) reds & oranges come from line breeding high color animals into projects like the salmons/hypos, pastels, and other lines.
selective breeding!
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jhsulliv
Jun 17, 2008 07:46 PM
NP
beastie
Jun 17, 2008 08:10 PM
wow. i just noticed how wrong that reads, compared to what i meant...
i meant to type this: non-morphs (as opposed to bloods, etc.)...
darn brain.... nice catch, though....
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boaphile
Jun 18, 2008 08:42 AM
Don't worry. I rarely write anything coherent, but that doesn't seem to stop me from doing it again and again. LOL
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boaphile
Jun 17, 2008 07:40 PM
Line breeding is not required to make red Boas. Selective breeding is and the more red the better as far as I am concerned.
Here is an example of non-line bred Boas bred for more and more red:
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beastie
Jun 17, 2008 08:12 PM
i am having a bad brain-talking-to-fingers-while-typing day! i meant to say "selective" when i said "line" breeding...
aaaarrrrrgghhh! i just might need a day off!
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craig k.
Jun 18, 2008 10:30 AM
Sometimes you find certain hypo lines that produce some nice red.
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