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I am also wondering why the large price tag on a het square tail. I understand that the square tail trait is also the ladder tail trait...that is the new name for them ..right? What I am wondering is also why so much money for them and what is the benifit of having them in a breeding program? Is there a demand for them? I was checking Pete's site out and noticed he has quite a few available. Thanks all, Andy

They come from albinoboas.com in Germany. Very promising new morph. They are like arabesques but CLEAN! Very colorful too. Looks to be a recessive trait.

Do not confuse squaretails with CBLT (circleback ladder-tails), which are just a phenotype within normals. Squaretails are a single gene mutation (like Albinism, Hypos, Jungles, etc).

Gray has more info on his website laying out their characteristics: http://www.allboas.com/listing.php?id=26

I found the info on the sites to be useful . Thanks andy

The German "square tail" combine different traits, colors, body pattern and tail pattern. But those traits, don't work the same concerning their genetic !
Square tail and ladder tail are not the same pattern, I have a female that allready produced 2 litters with 2 unrelated males and in both, half the babies had square tails. When I say square tail, it's a striped tail with squares in it like the german bloodline.I have a co-dom one .
I can't post pics here but some of you can find some pics on an other well known boa forum !