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Hi everyone!

Proudly I present you the newest boa mutation:

Raptorboa:

SuperRaptor:

The Raptorboa has been published in the newest edition of John Berry's book as some of you have might noticed and tonight I was able to finish the video for my website so please come and take a look!

Thanks for watching

Eabele de Rue

www.raptorboa.com

Excellent..how do the genetics work exactly? Thank you for sharing this animal with us.

Hi,

the gene works with a heterozygous form (raptorboa) and a homozygous form (super). This means if you breed 2 raptors together you will statistically get 50% raptors 25% superraptors and 25% noncarrying normals.

Breeding a raptor to a normal gives 50/50 raptors/normals and using a superraptor gives 100% raptors, or even 50% superraptors if you breed it to a raptor.

To cut it short, it works just like all other incomplete dominant genes.

Eabele de Rue

Got it! Thank you.

That's a beautiful Boa specimen Eabele !!

The Raptor is a very Kool Boa Morph !

. . . Lar M
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After taking a second and third look the Raptor and Super Raptor have an appearance similar to an Aztec and Super Aztec but doubt they're genetically related. The Raptor boa is amazing but that Super Raptor is off the chart's and very beautiful plus those red eye's on the Super Raptor are to die for. I'm very impressed with them and think there're going to make some incredible combo's in the future. Congratulation's on a job well done, but more importantly working the project for as long as you did. Show's a huge amount of integrity you devoted 6 years of your life to bring us these gorgeous boa's. Take care and continued success in the year's to come. Andrew

Andrew,

thanks a lot for your post. It is very important that people understand how the Raptorboa works and I think you just nailed it! I also think the Aztecs & Raptors have some things in common, but there are also differences that tell they are not the same & both have their advantages.

Off course I did a lot of thinking the last years and I am wondering what you think of my thoughts:

I believe that connected pattern morphs are all on the same spectrum, though not exactly on the same gene/alleles. Actually aztec, motley, arabesque, roswell, key west & raptor are all showing the same effect though not exactly have the same appearance & colors. I think some have more extreme effect, like motley were the Super is completely black/patternless and the heterozygous is also more extreme muted than the other connected morphs.

Incomplete dominance is actually something that is like mathematics, and I've thought to express it in numbers. Let me try to explain that one.

I think the more extremely muted the heterozygous form is, the more patternless the Super becomes. This is probably why your Super Aztecs are even patternless sometimes. Your aztec is probably a 3 on "the scale of connecting" (Man... does that make sence?). Your super is a 3 3=6. Like for reference an arabesque would be 1 1=2 and for example the motley would be 4 4=8. The Raptor I consider 2 2=4.

What do you say about all this?

Anyway I've loved your Aztecs since I saw them for the first time and I especially like those heavy patterned specimens Aren't morphs the greatest thing?

Eabele.

Sounds good to me. Thanks for the time to post your thought's. Take care and good luck in the thing's you love to do. Andrew

Being that I am a numbers guy, I really like your approach. It was an interesting from a rarely used mathematical point of view.

Hey I really enjoyed your vid you post on your website! You seem like a very down to earth cool kinda guy! It's nice to hear that your relationship with reptiles and life were very close to mine growing up im 26 also. Any ways keep us posted on more news about the beautiful RAPTOR BOA.
Take care,
JAKE BRITTON

Awesome Project!! Congrats!
Michael Burton

Big congrats !!! love the color and pattern!! How big is the adult male? Are those pure colombians? do you have pics of the adults who started this cool looking morphs? Any background info
will help too!! Boa world step up again with this amazing morph!!!
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Albert
Getting back from boa hobby!!!
0.1 fiance , not super tame, but getting there!! lol
0.1 Sharp line albino , poss het sharpsnow
1.1 TH Sharp snowglow
1.0 CA stripe proven super hypo
1.1 Hypo nics
1.0 Emerald line sunset
1.1 pure Cancun boa
0.2 Betty line hog island
4.4 CA hypo/hogs het full body stripes
0.2 CA poss. super hypo
1.1 DH CA type2 ghost
1.0 CA Tpos nic
2.0 Red Line Jungle ,dad and son
1.1 hypo jungle
1.1 Dogs
Lots of feeder mice and rats !!!

Congrats Eabele!
I really like the super.
cheers,
Eric

Very cool, I really like the Kubsch raptor.

Amie

Awesome! Those will be a super new addition to the boa world. Great job!
I am looking forward to see the video...but i am on my phone and it wont let me see. please post more pics...that is a wonderfull new boa.
Andy Federico
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breedings pics, size of the adults, ...are missing. May be the web site isn't finished or these informations are allready in the 'book'. Every body doesn't have the book !
I am found of babies in the 'goo 'and some much more than me, any pics of super, hets and wild type together in the goo or hets and super ?

Thanks.

Great snake for starters, but is there only 1 so called ""super"" born? cause on that site i see the same snake as super shown a couple of times and with now further information.

your years of waiting and breeding would give some inside IMO and as several people have asked
Please help us with diff goo-pics,parents,breedings done etc etc? to understand your raptorboa genetics.

Could be interesting, could also be just a nicely linebred boa.

but still nice, never the less

Ralph I

That thing is nice.
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Richard Ceniceros