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Can someone provide me with info on blood boas. I have checked out some sites but there is not much info out there.

Are they simple recessive or are they co dominant like hypos/salmons.

I also looked at the VPI pics of the blood and pewter boas produced by breeding a type 2 anery to a blood.( I think ) When the type 2 was bred to a blood did they produce DH for pewter and they breed the Double hets together to get the pewter or what.

Any info or pics would be appreciated

Thanks

Dan

You are on point Big Dan. The Blood Boa as far as I know is a simple recessive trait and so is the type II anery boa. Therefore, the Pewter was produced from a double het to double het breeding.

Oz

I believe several years ago when Ron St. Pierre bred his blood x blood a few of the babies came out looking like type 2 anerys. In other words the bloods were hets for anery. These were actually the first pewter boas. The great looking boas Tracy shows are from a breeding of bloods from that litter Ron produced that had a few Pewters and again some of the babies came out pewter proving that the anery gene was in there. The pewter is both a blood and a type 2 anery where the anery componant takes out all of the blood color and results in truely excptional type 2 anerys. I think this is correct; Tracy or others please correct me if I am wrong. I think this also proves that the type 2 anery is recessive given the number of type 2 anerys produced in each litter.
Bill kirby