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The Latest Harlequin Oddity

bcibydesign May 10, 2005 10:15 PM

We're not sure what to make of these! Produced by breeding an F3 normal Harlequin male,to a completely unrelated female...this one just shed this evening.In a litter of 9 there were four like this.
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Guy Scavone II May 10, 2005 10:17 PM

Guy Scavone II
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callmedaddie May 10, 2005 10:37 PM

I would definitely be interested in purchasing a pair of the siblings. Will you make any available?

primevalbeauty May 10, 2005 10:38 PM

to get one? The potential staggers me. Have you thought about playing the lottery?

PGoss May 10, 2005 10:41 PM

Lovely! And all that jazz. Congrats!

Phil Goss

BASICALLYBOAS May 10, 2005 10:52 PM

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Hypoboa1 May 10, 2005 10:58 PM

>>We're not sure what to make of these! Produced by breeding an F3 normal Harlequin male,to a completely unrelated female...this one just shed this evening.In a litter of 9 there were four like this.
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Dang what a sight to see!!!!!!!!!!Sweet!Thanks for Sharing,Eric[Hypoboa]
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giantkeeper May 10, 2005 11:01 PM

That is insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Shane Kinney May 10, 2005 11:03 PM

..what he will look like after coloring up.

giantkeeper May 10, 2005 11:03 PM

n/p
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salmonboa.com May 10, 2005 11:07 PM

That is an incredible animal! Do you have more pics of him and the others?

Congratulations!

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bcibydesign May 10, 2005 11:25 PM

some things make you say Hmmmmmmmmmm.
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salmonboa.com May 10, 2005 11:43 PM

Ya thats good!

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chris nicholas May 11, 2005 12:00 PM

N/P

Gabor May 11, 2005 12:17 PM

I cant belive it!!! Simply AWSOME!!! Next boa on my wish list. When is it going to be over.

Greetings
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JohnLokken May 10, 2005 11:18 PM

What a year in boas!!!!!!!!!
Keep the pics coming!
John
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bcibydesign May 10, 2005 11:28 PM

it was killing me.

ajfreptiles May 11, 2005 12:17 AM

You mean when Harely F3's are bred they produce those!!! WOW! Thanks for showing. Andy

Jeremy Stone May 11, 2005 12:25 AM

That is SOOO Awesome!!! Major Congrats...

It would be cool if you could post pics of the Dad and the Mom, and the 4 patternless babies next to the 5 normals. What did the 5 normals look like? Harly? VERY VERY COOL...

Just scratching the surface!!!

Boas,, got to love them.

Jeremy

giantkeeper May 11, 2005 11:41 AM

Correct me if I am wrong, but there are several ball python morphs (?) that lead to a white (Lucy) ball python.... Now it seems that in the boas, there is some interesting patternless mutations popping up...Is this the natural progression within boas....to be patternless?

I understand most of the latter still need to be proven out, and I am ignorant when it comes ball pythons!
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Jeremy Stone May 11, 2005 11:58 PM

Chris,

I really don't know what to think about that. YES, there are MANY different Snakes that make WHICH almost Lucy snakes with Ball Pythons. Het Ivories, Yellow Bellies, Mojaves, Lesser Plattys, Plattys, Fires, and even MORE!!! That is SOOOO weird how in just such a short time there was this HUGE amount of different animals making a similar morph. OF course some of the white snakes are different in those Balls but as they get to adults, they all almost look the same except the eye color, and some have a tad of yellow faint striping.

Now with the Boas, I really have NO CLUE!!!! I do think it is very cool that there are many different mutations popping up, and I think that is the BEST thing we could have happen to Boas. It just goes to show that HARD work with Even a simple good looking bloodline can pop you out something BIG!!!! I think that allure will help the market even more. Just think of that "pink Patternless" Morph. I know the name is solonge (Forgive me if I screwed that up). However, OUT pops something VERY COOL. PROVES GENETIC, and 20K plus in 1 sale. That is AWESOME!!!!

In correlation to the Mutations being similar to where they are kindof like the Super Motley, that is very strange. I can tell you that it appears similar becasue of the Pattern being gone, but the color and eyes are COMPLETELY different, and I wish I had a lot more Super MOtleys to look at to see if they even vary enough to look random in a different way, but it looks like I'm not going to have any this year. My LAST Motley female just swallowed up her follicles for the year, so it looks like a BOMB for me this year, but next year I hope to have a lot more ready to go.

I do think each morph will add a ton to every pattern and color out there. That is why it is going to be very cool to see where this whole Boa thing will be in 10 years. I bet there will be stuff that we never even dreamed up because of stuff like this. Just goes to show, that you can never really count ANYTHING out if it looks special or proves to have something breeding special in the offsprings of the babies.

This probably didn't answer your question well, but To be honest, I would be just giving my opinion, and you know what Opinions are. LOL

Take Care, Jeremy

I do think this is AWESOME for the whole Boa Market!!!!

STUART May 11, 2005 12:35 AM

Doubling in price! Woohoo! Glad I got my hypo harley when I did. Amazing! Super congrats. I want some like that too lol. Standing in line........

cnb2 May 11, 2005 04:19 AM

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JeffGray May 11, 2005 05:21 AM

Congrats on those sexy beasts!
As if I wasn't already excited enough about harlequins .
Those are very special animals.

Rainshadow May 11, 2005 06:39 AM

In the flesh last night,I was even more dumbfounded than I was when I first got the call! "Whatnawirl?" That's what I call one helluva way to end a dry spell B !!! these things may be the "Thayeri" of BCI ! What next? "Milksnake phase"???????

EricNL May 11, 2005 01:07 PM

throw away that eraser and focus on the colors Magee Bros.
STAY FOCUSSED !!!!

I understand this is a major step forward but I can't imagine this is it. As Erythusiasts you won't stop until they're bright orange as well ! ..... Carrot boa's woohoo !!!

Good luck with those Harleys ... as I mentioned earlier ... please continue to amaze me.

Keep up the good work !

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ChrisGilbert May 11, 2005 07:42 AM

Absolutely amaizing! Scoria Boas, Albino Motley, and now a Patternless harlequin!

topnotchboas May 11, 2005 08:20 AM

np

bcijoe May 11, 2005 08:26 AM

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greenman38 May 11, 2005 08:36 AM

Thanks for shairing, can't wait to see them all. Best of luck with all of your animals....

LindaH May 11, 2005 09:03 AM


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lexxxx300 May 11, 2005 10:07 AM

np

robertmcphee May 11, 2005 10:18 AM

np

Randall_Turner May 11, 2005 10:30 AM

Was this the first breeding for that F3 harlequin or the unrelated female? Also have you seen anything similar (of course not to the extremes these gems show) in any other litters? Again congratulations, this definetely is a great addition to the numberous excellent morphs that have popped out as of late.
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Amanda_Burke May 11, 2005 10:55 AM

What a beautiful litter creature...to think that you have 4 of them to look at every day! I'm jealous! lol
Congratulations Brendan, that is really an awesome looking boa!
Take care,
Amanda Burke
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AbsoluteApril May 11, 2005 11:01 AM

freakin' weird! Every breeding seems like you guys will have to re-write the book on this harliquin morph!
Was the rest of the litter 'normal' or did some of the other littermates display any of the more classic harliquin look?
thanks for sharing, I bet you were shocked when you saw those!
Hope you post more pics as they grow up
-April

VolcomHerp May 11, 2005 11:32 AM

np

L.A.Snakes, Inc. May 11, 2005 09:12 PM

WOW....awesome! More...more...more!

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