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He is a little dark in this pic.

VERY Nice snake!. I love the clean crisp contrast and balanced pattern.

you posted a message about bone colored boas a while back and I totally agree that these are nice snakes..

the pic I attached is the closest I have to "bone colored." He is from Rich Ihle, and is a 66% poss DH ghost. Is it acceptable to call this a "normal"?
With so much attention about names and me being a novice, I'm a little wary of accidentally misrepresenting..

anyway, thanks for posting your pics.. they are all really great.

Patrick

I feel the only problem is going against the norm. People expect to see a Pastel boa when someone post a pastel. Same goes with jungles, motleys, anytheristics and so on. These traits are supposed to genetic. Most of these animals are high dollared animals that people buy for their beauty but also for investments. I think the problem comes from the fact that if you can't prove the animal's trait are genetic then you shouldn't call it so. We all see dark ugly boas posted as Pastels and then we put a high dollar on them.

I personally don't see anything wrong with calling an animal a "whatever colored" animal because it is the truth whether the genetics has been proven or not.

If a salesperson wants to capitalize off of a name hey more power to him/her but why not call animals pastel-like, jungle-like, anytheristic-like and etc.

Again it creates controversy when someone goes against the norm and the problems come when a newbie to morphs such as myself wants to buy a high dollar morph and someone represents an animal as such and the traits haven't been proven or it is not such an animal but has similar characteristics; this puts the buyer at a real disadvantaged. I've been doing herps for about 14 years (damn I'm old) and I think people need definitions. We can't soley appreciate a boa for its beauty. We need to know absolutely that this is a surinam, peruvian, true colombian, hypo, anytheristic, and so on. That is just how we are. We need definitions and different classes to put things in. We don't want to much uncertainity or we get uncomfortable.

I also believe people get amped up and motivated and feel alive so they really do want the uncertainity. That is just the way people are. I gotta go hit the weights just thought I would add something to it.