I just got this little girl this past weekend, and I'm pretty well stumped as to what "morph" she is. She is clearly not your average run-of-the-mill Colombian, and even her breeder has no idea how she turned out like this.
First, some background on her. She was born 07/20/09, and she is tiny for her age. I saw both parents, and they were nothing extraordinary at all. Her mother is a typical, rather dark Colombian Boa, supposedly het for albino(not proven as such, though). Her father appears to be a Honduran "Fire Belly", slender-built, about 5 feet long, 12 years old, typical dark CA pattern on top and bright orange-peach coloration underneath, a probable import. There is nothing odd or unusual about either. The litter consisted of only four babies and 19 slugs, and all four babies appeared to be preemies, with the three initial survivors retaining their yolks several days after birth. There was one stillborn baby that had not fully developed. Of the three survivors, there was this girl, and one a female that looked like a very typical Hypo, and a male that was very Anery-looking at first, but which turned nearly black after his first shed. However, he had noticeable birth defects, including two spinal kinks, and he only lived for six weeks. The two females appeared healthy, just small.
This little girl has no noticeable red on her at all. Her pattern, and most especially her tail, is what I'd describe as a warm latte' color, or light chocolate. It reminds me of the color of a Weimaraner dog or an Isabella Doberman. There is absolutely no black on this snake; even the bar behind her eye is still dark chocolate brown, not black. As you can see, her pattern is somewhat aberrant, though nowhere near as aberrant as her that of her Hypo-ish sister, who'd already been sold(breeder had pics on her computer), which was really "Jungle-ish", with about a 3/4 stripe.
