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Hi ALL. I was thinking that i will post these beautys in here because something is bothering me very much. I hope i will get some advice on this subject. SO, here is the story: Back in 2002 i bought a few boas from a animal dealer in Poland. One of them was weird. When i saw that snake i said wooow. Not laught. I payed for that one 80$.LOL Its the boa from the first picture. In the next year in 2003 he called me and he said that there is one weird again. I bought that one for 250$. He raised the price.LOL
Anyway, both of these 2 snakes came from the same female. I have no information about the males. I dont have any pictures of them. All i know is that they were born in Russia and the russians have the parents labeled as Boa con con because the guy who sold them the snakes some long time ago wrote that in the Cites. He was from SWEDEN!!!!Hmmmm.
Ok. As you can see these 2 boas look VERY cool i think. I called them Zig Zag because its unproven Jungle line in my opinion. I mean i hope they are...
I have seen many striped, reverse striped, zig zag boas. Many of them are similar to Jugnle boa but they are not genetic jungle. Jungle boas are genetic line as i know and they dont have to be striped etc. to be Jungle and to cary the valuable gens.
So, 1.Is it possible that the female - mom of these creatures is a jungle and only one of the babys from the litter is striped. I mean full stripe because there was a few others only with tail stripes.?
2. I notice that my snakes has that strange white, thin stripe on the tails. Is that typical to jungle line?
What you think of them? Thank you
Gabor Kaminski

Here is the second boa. AHA. Please look at the color of the body. Strange. Like a Hypo?!?

Here she is... :0)

>>Here she is... :0)
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For sure!She has 1 sweet pattern going on!Good luck with her an your future projects with her!Eric[Hypoboa]
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E&C's Exotic House of Reptiles

That is a very unique looking snake. Beautiful. Hope you prove that little guy/girl out. Thanks for sharing.
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Derek Roberts
Sonoran Reptile Breeders
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It's nothing. I would be more than happy to give you the money you spent on them. Lol

Actually, it's not a "Jungle" because a Jungle is a specific line of snakes that looks similar to yours that has been proven genetic. Although it's possible that it's the same, yours looks a little different. Alot of hypos produce Jungle looking snakes that are not true "Jungles" also. Every boa with a pattern like yours is not a Jungle, they could just be weird looking snakes that will never prove out.

You should obviously prove it out and then you can name them, or you could send them to me for your money back. Lol

I don't believe your boas are jungles. They are very beautiful aberrant boas though. Jungle boas have a specific pattern to them, the more jungles you see, the more you could recognize their distinguished pattern from aberrant boas. That is a very beautiful boa though, good luck with your project. Here is a pic. of my aberrant salmon.

Hi Gabor,
not a jungle, much much better !! Breed them and then bring me the babies .
Alain.

That pattern is fantastic, but the color as it appears in that picture is the most interesting to me! hmmmmm......
Very beautiful boas!
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Amanda Burke
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Hi

Thank you very much. I will do my best to breed them soon. Maybe next year. Well see. YEAP. The color is very unique. Please look at the picture. This is the stripe that im POINTING!!!
Did anyone seen this kind of mark on any kind of abberant boas, stripe etc except Jungle boas???

Thank you

Gabor