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I wanting to see some pics of some Calico Boas. Is this a recessive or codom gene? Does it act the Calico in retics or does it have the look from birth? Thanks for any and all help.

>>I wanting to see some pics of some Calico Boas. Is this a recessive or codom gene? Does it act the Calico in retics or does it have the look from birth? Thanks for any and all help.

The calico trait is something that is pretty misunderstood still. It does not seem to pass in any sort of fashion that you could say simple recessive or co-dom. There are a couple guys out there working with calicos but there just has not been too much of anything to confirm them as anything more than a sporadic trait that is eerily linked to the paradox trait.

Here is a pic of our calico super hypo triple het moonglow. Produced from a sunglow to ghost breeding by Chuck Tornetta.

Hope this helps a little but there are just more questions than answers arising from these calico animals out there. IMO
Zach

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It might be impotant to note that your boa looks to be suffering from Fat Rat Syndrome and not a calico at all..... I'm just saying?
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Regards,
Buddy

So your saying that boas look like calico's because of what they eat?

>>So your saying that boas look like calico's because of what they eat?

Here is a nice informative article that Mike Weitzman was kind enough to write to help elaborate a little more for those wondering about fat rats and Toxic Rat Syndrome.

http://basicallyboas.com/whats_new.html

Also some have said that rodent companies have sold rats that were actually tested on in labs as feeders which have caused some to have lost quite a few of their prize animals.

Here are quite a few more pics of our "calico" that I just took to try and show where the calico markings are. Also one thing to say is that he had never eaten a rat a day in his life until April of this year and he is four years old.

April 4th, 2010 he had a rat that was scented with a mouse. Before this he didn't even care about a rat.
April 22nd, 2010 he had his first rat that was not scented. The gentlemen who had owned him prior to us told us how irritating it was that he absolutely would have nothing to do rats. His third meal was the mouse scented rat and his fourth meal here was the plain rat not scented with anything.




Overall a calico is just what we were told when we received the animal as well as our personal opinion. Either way we just like him and don't really care if he proves out to be "calico". With the others we have seen posted and otherwise he looks like a calico. If the calico markings were not laid out so perfectly on his saddles and not to mention the fact he has never eaten rats until April and looked this way before that, we too would think that maybe it was a fat rat.
Knowing the history of him a little more and seeing the other pics Bud, do you still think fat rat? Just wondering? Also he is also het albino and het anery as well as super hypo. He bred a motley pos het snow this year and the whole litter had hypo influence, proving him super, and there were ghosts, hypo mots, sunglows, etc. So in that case he would have proved triple het. At first Chuck T. thought he was from a paradox to orange tail hypo litter just from the explanation and one photo we sent. After giving him the info on the motley pos het snow pairing, he was sure he is from his sunglow to ghost pairing that year. Either way, we did not produce the litter so we are going to prove him out ourselves.
Zach
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cv exotics has some of the baddest calicos i have ever seen do not think there is anything out there like them. check them out at cvexotics.com the pics do not do them justice have seen them up close, insane

I agree.. I seen Scotts calicos.. Cant beat them anywhere. I got an animal from scott and produced a nice calico last year.. Some of his animals are born normal but turn calico at 4ft.. Others are just insane..

>>cv exotics has some of the baddest calicos i have ever seen do not think there is anything out there like them. check them out at cvexotics.com the pics do not do them justice have seen them up close, insane

Yeah I just checked them out and one of them I would definitely say deserves a firm label of calico. All the others to me looked more like paradox animals as they had albino eyes. IMO. The one that was a calico was absolutely the nicest I have ever seen. Without a doubt.
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>>It might be impotant to note that your boa looks to be suffering from Fat Rat Syndrome and not a calico at all..... I'm just saying?
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>>Regards,
>>Buddy

Heard that before but you can see in person that all his calico markings on only surrounding his saddles. If it is TRS the places it effected are the most localized and perfect that it is insane. Every saddle has calico markings surrounding the saddles, but everyone is entitled to their opinion. Some of the hypo mots he produced this year had slight calico markings on them.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N4GL94OojM&feature=player_embedded

here is a vid that Jeremy Stone posted on his FB

>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N4GL94OojM&feature=player_embedded
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>>here is a vid that Jeremy Stone posted on his FB

Thanks for posting that video. Antgreentea told us about that boa and we knew it would be crazy. I am glad he is calling it a pied boa and not a calico as it is one of a kind compared to all the "calicos" out there. WOW. Should be a fun project to watch progress.
Zach
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