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What kind of price range would they be in?

I hope you did not take offense. I am just a little sick of that stuff. Now Im not a pure locality freak. I just think that the Nicaraguan boas are so variable that there would be no need to muddy up the blood. I just believe there would be no advantage. I have way more to say but I have to get to work. I am interested in seeing what others might have to say. And once again this is only an opinion.

Bob

Bobs right. Nics have bu-koo color diversity. Crossing them to a Hogg Island would only wash out all that variety. Just look at the hypo nics.. WOW. Interesting thought, all the same.
Later-
Matt Schubarth
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are the key to future dwarf morphs. I've seen hypo X hogs, but I believe it was a Colombian hypo, so the young were probably bigger animals than a hypo nic X hog would be.

Currently my only boas are a couple unrelated baby purebred (I think!?!) hogs. I have never bred boas before but I plan to when these two grow up. I've seen hog crosses that I though were irresponsible. The young looked too much like hogs or they were recommending they be bred to pure hogs.

This was more of a curiousity question than anything else. I don't really believe in cross-breeding rare boas, or extinct in the wild, as the case may be, if it's just to get a different looking animal. I would perhaps have a different opinion if the purpose were to create a better pet boa with a broad gene pool and combining the best characteristics of the varieties they were bred from with regards to behavior, size, feeding and habitat requirements. Obviously the problem would be trying to prevent the hybrids sold from being bred back to the pure forms.

Awesome hypo by the way. A breeding pair of those would be cool, I'm going to go rob a bank so I can afford some! LOL