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On Friday morning my wife and I returned home from vacation to find my most anticipated litter of boas crawling in goo. We bred one of our 2006 Super Stripe males to a completely normal looking, non-striped/aberrant het female and produced these guys.
I don't even have a count on them, but I think it's 25 healthy and only 1 slug. Mom is doing great, and this was her second consecutive year producing babies.

Hope you enjoy the pics.

I'll post more pictures once they shed.
Anthony
Conley Herps, Inc

http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/vv296/conleyherps/09SuperStripelitter05.jpg

This one is deffinantly the pick of the litter.

awsome!

congrats and awesome looking babies! Was the normal looking female "het' for Super stripe or will your super stripe line create super stripe in first generation?

The Super Stripe is a recessive trait.

The confusion is about all the other stripes and reverse stripes that are produced along side them. The "Lesser Stripes" as one other breeder named them, seem to act in a dom/co dom manner, but not in all cases. This leads me to believe there is another gene playing around in there that nobody can explain as of yet. I say this because there are other breeders who are working with this line of Super Stripe, and from the results they have shared with me.

I will continue to try and work on better understanding these stripes. They can be equally impressive in some cases, and they can develop into truly outstanding colored adults just the same as the Super Stripes.

All Super Stripes are not the same as well, which makes picking them out a chore in some cases. We have produced several over the years that I can't honestly say what they are. The best examples are animals who are 90% striped, with that grey thin stripe running down the middle, giving the appearance of 3 stripes. Others can range from 25% striped to 90%, but they always have a tail pattern.

To date we've produced litters from the following pairings.

Super Stripe to Normal
Super Stripe to Non-Striped Het Super Stripe

Striped het Super Stripe to Striped Het Super Stripe (2 litters)
Striped Het Super Stripe to Non-Striped Het Super Stripe

I hope this answers some of your questions.
Anthony
Conley Herps, Inc

Definitely an interesting and very beautiful morph. I hope you are able to get all of the inheritance figured out, as I know I'd love to have a striped animal like those little beauties.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

When I initially saw your post, I was glancing at the text as the pictures were capturing my attention. I was under the impression that "super stripe" referred to the method of inheritance (ie, codom), not the "super" or impressive look of the stripe. I believe I now understand this to be a simple recessive trait and therefore the word "full" could be substituted for the word "super", is that correct?
Thanks and impressive animals!!!
jb
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Jonathan Brady

You are correct.

Hey Jonathan,

Here's the SUPER (no pun) quick explanation:

Many moons ago when I was first starting to market some offspring, someone asked me, "What are you calling them?". No kidding, we had a tough time figuring out just what name to give them. So, in a moment of frustration being the best way to describe them, we simply coined them 'Super Stripes' because in our opinion everything else (striped boas at that time) was just not even close to how wild looking these were. It was also a time when 'Super' may have just been used for co-dom Ball Python morphs and that was not taken into consideration. Sooooooo... it just stuck. Years later then the whole issue of it being a 'Super' co-dom trait came up because of the name. As best we could pin it down was recessive with possibly something else going on that could not be completely explained. I'm very happy Anthony is working it out... hopefully!!!

Matt

>>When I initially saw your post, I was glancing at the text as the pictures were capturing my attention. I was under the impression that "super stripe" referred to the method of inheritance (ie, codom), not the "super" or impressive look of the stripe. I believe I now understand this to be a simple recessive trait and therefore the word "full" could be substituted for the word "super", is that correct?
>>Thanks and impressive animals!!!
>>jb
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>>Jonathan Brady
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np.

These are indeed the line Jablonski proved out.

I did not actually 'prove' them. The founder of the bloodline before we acquired the project did the initial breeding work to reproduce the stripe. We just continued to breed and promote them!

>>These are indeed the line Jablonski proved out.

Those are WICKED! Congrats!
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Cheers,
Jessica Gibbs
Ball Pythons; Corn Snakes; Green Tree Python; Jungle Carpet Pythons; Bci; Bcl
3.0 Crazy Dogs and 2.0 cats
Some Tropical Fish
...........and growing!

Congrats Anthony!

You have some real lookers in there! Can´t wait until I can produce some from my het. female.

Take care and talk soon.

/Dennis

Those are cool looking for sure.
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Richard Ceniceros

You've done a great job with this project Anthony
You have definitely made it your project IMO
They look great congrats

. . . . Lar M
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Boas By Klevitz
Boas By Klevitz

those are really cool. Thats a great litter. Best of luck with them. Mike Panichi
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honesty is my only policy

SO nice to see, Anthony! I was waiting to see some more killer babies again. GREAT work!

Matt
p.s. - See you/them in Daytona?

Hey Matt,

Thanks for all your help over the years. I think you would be impressed with how the quality is improving every year.
Unfortunately, we will be missing Daytona for the first time in 12 years. We are going up north to visit Becca's family. The baby is growing so fast, and her family never gets to see him, so I think I can sacrifice this year.

Take care, we'll talk soon,
Anthony