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In 2001 and 2002 I imported quite a few sq. tail boas from Germany (albino Boas.com). In 02 I was looking for some Kubsch Pastels, Siegi and Frank had purchased 3 yearling pairs at a show in Germany and were nice enough to export one of the yearling pairs to me when I did the 02 import of the sq.tail babies. So this girl pictured is about 7 years old. She is a real sweetheart, but I just never got around to breeding her (what a waste, right?). Her brother is more purple and very fine also. These pictures were taken indoors with a flash and when I have time I will take outdoor pics of the male as I think he needs outdoor light to get the full impact.
I am going to breed this girl this season, but not sure if I will use her brother or outcross to something like an albino kahl or sharp. I would like to make more Kubsch, but I think I would have an uphill battle convincing potential buyers of the value and origin of these. I do have the CITIES papers that show the import however.
There is speculation that the Kubsch and the Sq.Tail boas are related. This may be and I don't really have an opinion on this. I do however have some absolute knee knocking adult Sq. Tails and the color is just different. I hope I have time soon to post good pictures of the Kubsch and a good Sq.Tail together to see what the camera shows. I am also going to email Seigi and see if he has anything to add.
Hope you enjoy the pictures.

John Manser

Another picture

Hello John,

good to see that the Kubsch Pastels
we sended you over are so nice.
I can remember them as yearlings years ago.
About the relation to the sq.tails.
I think they are related, but also different lines of selective breeding. The first sq.tail producing pair have been Kubsch pastels and they had visual signs that something is going on with their patterns. But we have never expected that they will produce that great animals we named squaretails. It was luck, like it nearly allways is with new morphs and it is now a proven genetic trait.Maybe if you breed your two Pastels together you will get a result that you never have expected.

PS. the snakes in the attached pic are the result of a kubsch x kubsch breeding, they have great color but not the nice pattern as the squaretails have.

Best regards.

SIEGI

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