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"The next new thing"?

What morph will help push the boa up to the level of ball python morphs?

  • Princess Diamond (PD)

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • Super Roswell

    Votes: 2 14.3%
  • Sterling

    Votes: 3 21.4%
  • Crystal

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Labyrinth

    Votes: 3 21.4%
  • Pied

    Votes: 5 35.7%

  • Total voters
    14

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Whats going to be the next new ground breaking morph to help push the boas up there with the ball python morphs?
 
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for me, maybe the pied. That is, if Tibor's proves genetic. It's so wacky looking. If you hadn't seen the pics:
http://www.reptileinsider.com/showthread.php?t=27602

I don't even know what those last 2 are and the others listed, I personally am not into because of being crosses or unknown history.

Wow! I have definitely been away too long, that pied is SICK!

The Labyrinth and crystal boas are from Jeff Ronne, the story is all over Jeff's Facebook page.
 

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I don't think Tibor's boa is a pied. I think it's the Motley gene being weird again. I suppose we'll see, but I kind of hate people are calling it a pied when nothiing is proven yet.

That aside, for me, in terms of crazy colorful animals, I think Sterlings are capable of dominating that part of the market. I'm convinced the right breedings can basically make solid red boas.
 
I don't think Tibor's boa is a pied. I think it's the Motley gene being weird again. I suppose we'll see, but I kind of hate people are calling it a pied when nothiing is proven yet.
I didn't know anything about the pied to be honest with you. I talked with a friend and they mentioned adding it to this list. I guess time will tell.

That aside, for me, in terms of crazy colorful animals, I think Sterlings are capable of dominating that part of the market. I'm convinced the right breedings can basically make solid red boas.
I love the sterling. It's an awesome looking snake with TONS of potential. Vote today!
 
I think what turns me off from a lot of new "up and coming" potential morphs to is the fact people just share nothing about them.

One thing I really enjoyed about the Sterlings is Ken was really transparent about the whole thing and even gave monthly updates on them.

The Princess Diamond if it proves, is a dead end morph. It's a solid white boa. There's nothing you can really do with it. That aside, there is always the issue that it is claimed to be a Colombian Boa (for legal reasons, that has to be claimed) but I doubt very many people believe it. The hets. look like BCA crosses.

But, I'm just a hater, so it's okay.

Super Roswells are cool, but I like the lightness and color of the Key Wests I have seen better. I've seen too many ugly Het. Roswells because of indescriminate breeding.

Crystal and Labrynth boas I do not know much about because I do not facebook. They look neat though.
 
I think what turns me off from a lot of new "up and coming" potential morphs to is the fact people just share nothing about them.

One thing I really enjoyed about the Sterlings is Ken was really transparent about the whole thing and even gave monthly updates on them.

The Princess Diamond if it proves, is a dead end morph. It's a solid white boa. There's nothing you can really do with it. That aside, there is always the issue that it is claimed to be a Colombian Boa (for legal reasons, that has to be claimed) but I doubt very many people believe it. The hets. look like BCA crosses.

But, I'm just a hater, so it's okay.

Super Roswells are cool, but I like the lightness and color of the Key Wests I have seen better. I've seen too many ugly Het. Roswells because of indescriminate breeding.

Crystal and Labrynth boas I do not know much about because I do not facebook. They look neat though.

Yeah, I talk to Ken quite a bit on Facebook. The sterling project has been awesome to keep up with and now that others have them the project will grow tremendously.

The PD project has been fun to watch, as there have been multiple updates on it as well. But I am sure the project will have some direction but we will just have to see how the genetics turn out.

I almost put the key west boa in the line up but the super form has not been proven or even seen for that matter.
 
Yeah, I've spoken to Ken a little too about the Sterlings. As of now, they are the only robust and thriving patternless to have been created that we know of.

The Princess Diamond thing has annoyed me for several reasons, some of those stated above. One being that people are buying hets. when supposedly only one actual Princess Diamond exists. It's kind of like the DH Blizzard thing. Hets. for Blizzard have been around for a while, yet no one seems to have a Blizzard Boa.

If PD proves and it is a Lucy, then it is going to just cover any pattern on an animal that exists and you can only really see it under black light (similar to BPs), so, again, dead end morph. You can only do so much with it and that is ... make white boas. Lol

One boa you did not add though and I think you should is the Midnight Gin. I actually think it's significantly cooler than most the others. Yes, it is an all black boa, but a black completely irredescent boa is just ... awesome.

I found a write up on the Crystal and Labyrinth Boas. Interesting animals. Much more interesting than a Lucy Boa.
 
One boa you did not add though and I think you should is the Midnight Gin. I actually think it's significantly cooler than most the others. Yes, it is an all black boa, but a black completely irredescent boa is just ... awesome.

I think its a cool boa as well, definitely like the ALL black with iridescence, but the poll I have created is for the boas we believe could jump start us into having the most potential to create new morphs. Like for instance, an albino sterling, hypo sterling, super hypo sterling, motley sterling or even a mixture of these.
 
The Sterling appears to be a morph that removes the pattern though, so a Motley Sterling would probably just look like a Sterling with a weird head.

If you compare the Sterlings to their siblings, you can see that beneath the normal pattern of the siblings, it looks just like the visuals, color and all.

As of now, there is not much reason to think patterns will spontaniously start appearing on the visual Sterlings.
 
The Sterling appears to be a morph that removes the pattern though, so a Motley Sterling would probably just look like a Sterling with a weird head.

If you compare the Sterlings to their siblings, you can see that beneath the normal pattern of the siblings, it looks just like the visuals, color and all.

As of now, there is not much reason to think patterns will spontaniously start appearing on the visual Sterlings.

Lol, I get what you are saying. I just was giving some possibilities. Because we really don't know for sure. Don't forget the breeding of the sharp & the boawoman carmel.
 
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