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This is the half-sibling to the litter I produced this year and what we were hoping to duplicate. While no reverse stripes showed up this year, we did get a nice bunch of partial stripes and aberrant patterns. Hey, it ain't all bad.

I know I'm biased, but his mom and I think he's a beaut!

Raven

Nice looking boa, looks a lot like a Tiger Boa. You must have a ressesive form of the gene, the Tiger boas are codominant, I'm sure you have seen the pics but let me boast a little more, A true Tiger boa when bred to another Tiger Boa will produce Tigers and Super Tiger boas like this one.
Good luck with your project. It is a cool looking snake.
Nick

We're calling him a reverse stripe for now, though I agree he looks a good deal like the tigers. The sire is the genetic carrier, proved out by being bred to two different normal females and produced two separate litters of aberrant babies, even though he appears normal. I forget the ratio of aberrant versus normal babies in the first litter my friend produced in 2000, but out of thirteen in my litter this year, eight are aberrant patterns or partial stripes. Here's a picture of my holdbacks from this litter (half-siblings to the reverse stripe):

And here's a picture of the female my friend gave me from her 2002 litter (full sibling to the reverse stripe):

Needless to say, we can hardly wait for these guys to mature and see if we produce supers. The waiting is probably the worst part of every project.

Raven

I usually like boas with nice big colorful saddles. But after seeing your lil guy, I guess big saddles or none at all is simply a wonderful site. Great looker you got there!!!

I have some tiger sibs that were born from a tiger to normal breeding and if anything they still miss a saddle or have a vary small amount of reverse striping at the tail. some of them have really pink bodies with some blueish hue to them and have really odd patterns, meaning they start to erase the side diamonds from their bodies like this one.

this is the same snake different angle

While the siblings and half-siblings do have junglish patterns, they don't have the jungle coloring, and they are definitely not from the Swedish Jungle line. In regards to the reverse stripe, while he does look similar to the tigers (I think the striping I've seen on them so far is much thicker/bolder), the pictures I've found of the reverse stripes look identical. I guess future breeding trials will help determine what he is for sure, but neither my friend (the owner) nor myself want to misrepresent the snake as being something it is not. So short of breeding him to a legitimate tiger female and producing super tigers, we can't make that claim.

All we do know for sure is that the sire to both her litter and mine is a genetic carrier for aberrant babies, as both females were unrelated to him or each other. I'll try to get a picture of him in the near future, but other than a slightly elongated tail saddle, he's a basically a normal looking boa. Her female, who gave birth to the reverse stripe, is an exceptionally nice light colored female but is also otherwise normal. My female which gave birth to my litter this year is also a basically normal looking boa, with the exception of one elongated tail saddle (will try to get a picture of her showing that, too) and some nice coloring. We'll know more about the genetics once the neonates and juveniles we have are of breeding size/age and can be bred back to one another. We're hoping for a 'super' of the form they now display, but a trait displaying the variable percentage striped results (as many of the striped lines do) would still be good.

Raven