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Morph resesrch is killing me with BS!

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How doI sort out the truth from BS?

Ok, short 411: I bought my big boas, planning to breed them, but when i realized I didnt even know what morphs would be born, I screamed rookie move, and was told to do research on genetics. Well I have and my brain thoroughly hurts. It's the scientific words but 90% is trying to sort out locale, color, pattern, and BULLS***! So if you don't mind I'm going list some morphs, or "words" and if it is a morph maybe, please describe or pic, and if its BS just tell me. Now I know some of these are BP morphs, but I have read where people swear they are boa morphs to!


Here we go:
Luecy
Jungle
Piebald
Arbesque
Lipstick (i know the is real but what makes it a lipstick and not just an albino)



There is more but this is all off top of my head. I can always ask later I guess. There is only one way to learn, and that's by asking questions!

Thank you in advance to any replies.

Respectfully,
Betty Mae Scott
 
Betty,

The lipstick line was started by putting lipstick on the lips of boas. You can use red, black, or hot pink only as any other colors would kill the snake. You have to put it on weekly during the boas second year of life for it to work. If you use red, you will get redder saddles, if you use black it will be anerystic black looking saddles, hot pink will get you in the door. Hope this helps.
 
Betty,

I'm sorry, but i'm bored at work and thought that was funny as heck:dgrin::rofl::rofl::rofl:

The lipstick wont work.

It might be easier for us to see your snakes and let you know what you might have as us trying to post a zillion pictures on here, even though that's what i did earlier.:)

Bill
 
Lol and you probably test it yourself lmnao seriously tho I'm just trying to educate myself in a hobby that I love.
 
It might make it easier to just learn about the genetics of boas first as trying to figure out boas and ball pythons at the same time. A good way to see what color and pattern differences there are is just looking in the classified section.
 
My snakes I know the morphs of, so that's not what I need help with. Thanks to Rick and Harold I now know what litter (hopefully if hets prove out) to expect. I want more education in the morph field in general. Knowledge is power my friend, and who doesn't love power lol
 
If I look at classified I'll go into debt lol the genetics I think I have pretty good, but what ticks me off is when someone says (example) "coral albino" albino boa with coral color saddles, but then there is a pic of a coral that has no pink/coral saddles. So what makes a jungle a jungle, a lipstick a lipstick, an abetsque what ever it is, what makes purple polls dotted albino a flipping purple polls dotted albino? See what I mean?
 
Check out the complete boa constrictor by Vincent Russo. It will answer alot of questions for you. Probably the best snake book I have ever seen
 
hupababy_83 said:
If I look at classified I'll go into debt lol the genetics I think I have pretty good, but what ticks me off is when someone says (example) "coral albino" albino boa with coral color saddles, but then there is a pic of a coral that has no pink/coral saddles. So what makes a jungle a jungle, a lipstick a lipstick, an abetsque what ever it is, what makes purple polls dotted albino a flipping purple polls dotted albino? See what I mean?
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In short, Lipstick albinos are Lipstick albinos because of selective breeding of high color animals.

Arabesque is a (often times high pink) pattern morph of Colombian lineage that acts Dominant to the best of my knowledge.

As to the Coral...people are stupid. They do stupid things. Like misrepresenting animals in hopes of a few extra bucks. If you want a Coral albino, deal with someone known to have them, or make sure you know what you're looking at.
 
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I've been told Chief is a coral, but I don't call him a coral do to the fact, he don't look like one to me! So he just a pervy albino, that likes cleavage.

I guess I'll stop researching and just stick with what I got. Besides, even if there was a purple polka dot albino, I sure as Hell couldn't afford it LOL

Thanks for the replies y'all.
 
Thank you Rachel, I'll have to check it out when I wake up tomorrow. Just got home from work and sick as a pup. Thank you all for the help.
 
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