The people that have them say it's a morph, and the people that don't have them say it's not. "Hets" are quite variable, but have certain visible characteristics (most noticeably a paler overall appearance, and they gain a honey to smokey gray brown tinting as they age); I get "choclate dilutes" in around 1/4 th of the offspring when I breed the visibles together. Some think it's a codom "hypoerythristic" gene with another codom or possibly recessive (T-positive) gene, but it seems codom hypoery' with modifying genes to me (not unlike how pigmentation varies considerably in jungles, Aztecs, etc.). Although the general appearance is similar to Hog Islands, my originals are supposedly just Nicaraguan. I got another odd Nicaraguan last year I'm trying to breed to a known "het" male to prove her out. I think it possible that this is the root genetic make-up that caused the variety of variation in insular boas such as Hogs, sabogaes, crawl cays, etc., once refined through selective breeding/natural selection. Even if it turns out to be a naturally occuring polygenic phenomenon, they are somewhat rare, beautiful and useful for breeding for certain colors, or lack thereof. Will a "bloody-chocolate" be red or tangerine orange, or perhaps hot-pink?
