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Ok. So i understand a Salmon Boa is basically a Hybo Boa, but what kind of boa!? is the Salmon Gene totally indipendent of all otehrs? that is to say. Can you have a Guiana salmon, or a Collumbian Salmon, or a Brazillian Salmone, Redtail Salmon, or a common Salmon boa.

so can you just take any boa (common, redtail etc) and it can have the Salmon Gene resulting in a salmon boa?

If this is true wouldnt the size of a Salmon boa depend on the locallity and subspecies of the boa?

Please help un-confuse me
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Russ
1 Brazillian Rainbow Boa (< 1 year old)
1 Rosy Boa (G/F's Snake)

Somehow i have to feed both?!
Melbourne, Fl

The link gives an account of the origin of salmon.

Basically, the original salmon boa was probably from Panama. She was crossed to at least one male boa constrictor, probably from somewhere in Colombia. So think of salmon boas as a bloodline of Boa constrictor imperator (BCI), mostly derived from the southern end of the subspecies range.

There is also the salmontine boa, which is a the result of crosses between Argentine boa constrictors (don't remember the subspecies name, but it is not BCI) and BCI salmon boas. While I am not aware of crosses between BCI salmon boas and Boa c. constrictor or other subspecies, I cannot say they have not occurred.

I like salmon BCI. But I think crossing subspecies is bad idea, so I wouldn't give a nickel for Salmontine or other salmon mutts.

Paul Hollander

The Salmon Boa Project

Salmon/Hypos have been crossed into BCC (Surinames) Hog Island BCI, and just about all other localities and sub groups. I believe some Hypo x BCC from Guyana were also produced.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

The Salmon is a bloodline of Hypo started by Rich Ihle, from breeding a Panamanian Hypo to a Colombian. Before understanding that it was a Hypomelanistic trait it was given the name Salmon because of the colors.

Salmons are mutts, mixed locale Boa constrictor imperator subspecies.

They have been bred to El Salvador Blood boas, Sonoran Leopards, Colombians, and Nicaraguans, that is just on the BCI side of things. (Also Hog Islands but technically they were never classified as B.c.imperator.)
Salmons have also been bred to Argentine B.c.occidentalis to create Salmontines, and have been bred to B.c.constrictor from Guyana and Suriname.