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How can you make sure boas are breedable if you buy them from different breeders? Also, How come some salmon's thet are better looking cost less then lesser looking salmons? Is there more than flaking to think about before I make this purchase?

you need to expand more on your first question. why wouldn't the boa pair be breedable? assuming that you have both sexes, and they are both sexually mature I don't see why they wouldn't be breedable barring some kind of unfortunate occurance.

I'm saying that if I have a columbian redtail boa and am tying to find a salmon to breed it with. How do I know that it is a compatible breeding mate? How do I know it is not a redtail boa from another region that looks similair? Also what does super salmon mean? when buying a salmon boa should I look for the pinkest with less flake?Sorry I am new to this and have alot of questions.

boa crosses between different subspecies are readily available, so you can assume that as long as they are some form of boa constrictor then they would be potentially able to breed. now, salmons are the hypomelanistic color morph of the colombian boa, so as long as they are different sexes they should be able to breed. something about the salmon morph, it is a co-dominant trait, a salmon is heterozygous for the gene, while supersalmons are homozygous. if you breed a salmon with a normal then theoretically half of the litter should be salmon while the other half would be normal. if you bred a supersalmon with a normal you'd end up with a litter of salmons. there's a ton of information on color morphs in snakes, and the genetics behind it on the web.