Hypo Nova Boa (Hyperion)

Don't see these guys posted anywhere too often ...

This is my 2011 Hypo Nova Boa from Donnie "Morti" Smith.

Excuse the bit of shed on his tail and the few flecks on his body. I was having a dry skin issue with him right before his most recent shed.

Pics aren't the greatest. I was still trying to figure out how to mess with it when I took these.




This guy's pattern is probably my favorite thing about him. Tried to sharpern this one ... didn't work too well. :-/



Some outside pics.





In the shade.




Enjoy.

That's a nice hypo. love the cleanliness of the background and the pattern.

These originated from Jeff Ronne correct? I was told they are true Colombian hypos.

Yes, the Nova Boa originated from Jeff Ronne and fell out of his Monstertail Line, however, I do not believe they are linked to his true Colombian Hypos.

My Nova came from a Pearlescent Monstertail Female and a Red Orange Tail Pastel Dream male.

Looking at the litter pics ... I actually think he was from the set of twins born and did not even realize that until just now. So ... that's kinda' cool.

Anyway ...

The Monstertail Female was the granddaughter of the original Pearlescent Male

So ... her litter consisted of Novas, Pearlescents and Monstertails. The exact way the Pearlescent and Novas work is not yet known, but Jeff Ronne is doing breeding trials this year that should clear it up a bit.

Originally Posted by ShadowAceD

Yes, the Nova Boa originated from Jeff Ronne and fell out of his Monstertail Line, however, I do not believe they are linked to his true Colombian Hypos.

My Nova came from a Pearlescent Monstertail Female and a Red Orange Tail Pastel Dream male.

Looking at the litter pics ... I actually think he was from the set of twins born and did not even realize that until just now. So ... that's kinda' cool.

Anyway ...

The Monstertail Female was the granddaughter of the original Pearlescent Male

So ... her litter consisted of Novas, Pearlescents and Monstertails. The exact way the Pearlescent and Novas work is not yet known, but Jeff Ronne is doing breeding trials this year that should clear it up a bit.

See this is exactly how I understood it. Someone on here had came across a key west boa and Jeff was interested in, he traded some high end boas for it and one of them she explained was a Nova hypo and it was a true Colombian hypo. But I think your right.

Originally Posted by mxracer4life

See this is exactly how I understood it. Someone on here had came across a key west boa and Jeff was interested in, he traded some high end boas for it and one of them she explained was a Nova hypo and it was a true Colombian hypo. But I think your right.

Maybe hers is, but that is only if Jeff bred one of his Colombian Hypos to a Nova and I seriously doubt that. The Novas by themselves are not result of breeding Colombian Hypos together. They popped up in a breeding that had the son of the first Monstertail female. He ended up being a super so all Nova Hypos were produced.

If they were Colombian Hypos, the price tag on them would have been substantially insane.

Jeff has released very few of his Hypo Colombians, as far as I know, and he definitely would not be letting a Hypo Colombian Nova out of the Black Hole so willy nilly.

The current theory is the Nova trait is transferred in the same manner as the Jungle trait. More breeding trials need to be done to confirm this, but was is known in the few breeding trials of Novas is that if a parent is Nova, their offspring will have Novas in the litter.

A lot of people disagree, of course, but time will tell one way or another. It may be a co-dom (incomplete dominant) trait or it may just be similar to abberant lines. It is difficult to know at this stage because the breeding that Donnie Smith did that resulted in my little guy involved a female that was not particularly abberant, but she had numerous abberant offspring, some to an extreme degree.

The same happened in Jeff's original breeding that resulted in the Nova's. The dam was abberant, but not with any crazy wackiness to the patterns though nearly all off the offspring were. Some could argue this was the hypo influence, but in Donnie's breeding, there were normals with crazy patterns too.

Jeff has a few write ups here and there on forums regarding the Nova's. If you search "How About a Little Controversy" on RTB.net or ReptileInsider.com you will find it.