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I'm on cloud ten......

rainbowsrus Nov 06, 2012 04:19 PM

Cloud nine was just not high enough!!

In 2011 a sibling pair of my Brazilian Rainbow Boas (Ziggy and Zoe) produced a litter with amazingly different looking animals that I called Candy Striped. Full body striping with super intense color, black heads and pink tongues.....

It appears to be incomplete dominant with the single gene expression being dorsal connected saddles like....

This year I made progress towards working out and proving the genetics. Ziggy was bred to a unrelated female, Dawn, along with the Zoe, the female that produced the 2011 litter. On 09/24 Dawn gave birth to a very small litter of 5 babies. First time mom and a small one at that. In that litter there were two babies with dorsal striping and three normal looking ones.....

On 11/05 Zoe produced a litter with more babies just like the ones from 2011....

So I have repeated the original pairing and done a Het x non Het and received expected results. Still have to finish raising up Supers for those breeding trials but I am confident they will produce litters with more or less expected results.

Here is a yearling with the two babies from this year......

Thanks for looking

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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Replies (4)

_Eric_ Nov 06, 2012 09:13 PM

Wow,those are Awesome looking animals!

giantkeeper Nov 07, 2012 10:41 AM

Congrats, these are among my favorites!
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ccphoto Nov 07, 2012 01:17 PM

So Awesome! Just amazing!
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Chris Carille
Marist College, NY
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LarM Nov 14, 2012 02:34 PM

Congrats Dave . .that is exciting that it is proving to be truly genetically reproducible . . . . .

I expected it to be but I'm glad it is working out this way for you !

. . . Lar M
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