This belongs with the jungle discussion below, but I didn't want it to get lost in the mess down there. I emailed this to Alex, who started the thread, and he asked me to post it here. So here it is:
Hey what's up Alex,
I saw your post about Jungles, and it is all very interesting. The one thing that noone talked too much about is genetic compatability. If you were to take that "jungle-ish" boa you bought from Mnr and breed it to a true jungle from the swedish bloodline, and super jungles were produced, the I believe you could call your aberrant boa a true jungle at that point even though it did not come from the swedish line. All it would mean is that both boas share the same genetic anomoly. The same thing happened with albino boas. When the first Sharp strain albino was imported, nobody knew that it was any different from the Kahl albinos. So, they bred it to a kahl albino, and only normals were produced. This proved that a different gene was causing the albinism. If albinos had been produced in this litter, nobody would have said that it is not an albino because it did not originate from the Kahl albinos.
So, what I'm getting at is that I don't believe their is any way to distinctly tell a jungle from a nicely colored aberrant boa. However, I do believe that the super jungles are very distinct and that is where the true money with this morph will end up - a boa that people can be sure of what they are buying. My concerns with purchasing one of these boas is that when I breed it, nobody will believe me since I am not a well recognized name.
I picked this girl up last year for almost nothing compared to the price of true jungles. She is not a jungle, but just a nice aberrant boa. However, you can see where the confusion starts with these boas.
Take it easy,
Matt Crabe
