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The female is an F3 of my line and will be 5 years old this year, if this takes it will be her 2nd litter. She is 5 feet 4 inches long and weighs under 5KG at peak weight. Her partner is an F2 of our line and at age 4-1/2 is 46 inches long and weighs well under 2KG.

The pairs are supplied with a substrate heat source time-controlled to induce a daily temperature rise and nightime cool-down. The current cycle attempts a 20% reduction in the overall thermal-cycle from highs experienced in mid-year. The (NTL) overnight low temperature in the room was 68 degrees (f).. mid-body temp on the female when this photo was taken at 7:00AM today was 74(f) and rising.

This would be what I call a premium pairing. Both animals display very good color and pattern confirmation but are pretty in different ways. One is overall more pale, the other more colorful and with a higher pattern density (HPD). By selecting dissimilar pairs for breeding we hope to make very pretty boa, but with a high percentage of the genetic potential of the progenitors of the line.

Cross your fingers for me on this (I'll take all the help I can get).

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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com

"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

And do I have time to get a soda?
Sorry sometimes I just crack myself up and can't help it LOL.
Nice breeding, I hope it produces for you this season.
Good Luck
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

Hoppy wrote:

"Good Luck"

Thanks, but as you may know, fortune favors the prepared mind..

Gus

God loves drunks and babies.........
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

I hope they produce for you. I would enjoy seeing the offspring they produce. Good luck.
Chuck

Beautiful boas.I am curious if this is a deviation from your normal practice as far as the type of pattern and coloring go in your breeder pairings.Were your pairings based on locality or the variables you mentioned,ie;LPD verses HPD,high colored verses lighter colored boas?Just curious.Thanx Marcus

.. pairings are based upon locality. Only that within our population of a certain locality of Boa we choose animals, from within that group with dissimilar characteristics to retain randomality in the offspring.

This breeding will produce many pale, ghostly, babies with few speckles and many bright pink or orange babies with or without speckling and hard markings as well as perhaps some throwbacks to F1-looking animals.

2nd, 3rd or whatever generation animals (whether locality or other) inbred for certain looks or any list of characteristics become more expressive of those chosen traits. Ultimately to the point where the sub-set of traits considered not as desireable (and the related genetics) are lost, as well as any number of traits not visually expressed. I just try to limit that loss of potential.

It is easy to see how this contrasts with MORPH-making, where if these rules were followed, there would be no albinos at all (or very few)..as well as many other popular recessives. And in the case of the albinos at least some undesireable traits have surfaced in those inbred populations over the course of the project.

Nope.. not starting a feud with the Morphers! Just explaining how, in my view, a locality population (especially of rare or insular animals) can be managed to better retain their diversity, and (if you think about it) their uniqueness as well.
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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com

"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

Very good point. It allows the future breeders of the line to experience the NATURAL diveristy within a locality.

Very comendable Gus!

Sorry.Should have been more specific.I was referring to "named" lineages,like "Reed" or "Rio Bravo bloodlines",not so much localities.I was using the word locality instead of lineages.Marcus

Wow Gus, Those are Nice ! The offsping from that pairing should be "Spectacular" ! Good Luck, with all your "Breeding Project's" this Season, your Collection of Boa's is "Second to None" ! ! ! ! Keep Up The Great Work ! ! & Take Care !
Kenneth
omahasnakes@yahoo.com