New babies..

[sophia]

Well,

We did it again... we traded Rick {Forked Tongue Enterprises - www.snakesplus.com } our two Apricot Pueblans for three new corns... all females... an Amel. Motley, a Snow Het. for Motley, and an Okeetee... we also picked up this beautiful boy. He's an Argentine Columbian cross... bout 8 mos. old. Just a beauty. Pix of the corns will be later tonight after I buy some more batteries!

Jon



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1.1 Red Blood Pythons

1.1 Ball Pythons

1.0 Argentine Columbian Boa Constrictor

0.1 Columbian Boa Constrictor

1.0 Snow Corn Snake

0.1 Amel. Motley Corn Snake

0.1 Snow Het. for Amel. Corn Snake

0.1 Okeetee Corn Snake

	Heterozygous Heterozygous - the animal carries the gene for a genetic trait but does not outwardly demonstrate the trait. Example: A boa that is het for albino looks normal but carries the albino gene. When it is bred to another het for albino boa or an albino boa, a percentage of the offspring will be albino.

	Female Female

	1.1 One Male and One Female

	Corn Snake The Corn Snake or Red Rat Snake (Elaphe guttata) is a species of Rat Snake.

[thomasito]

Is it just me or does that tail look a BCCs tail???
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	Boa Constrictor Constrictor Red Tail Boa Constrictor (Boa constictor constrictor). Refers to "true" red tail boas such as the Guyana and Suriname locales.

[sophia]

>>Is it just me or does that tail look a BCCs tail???

Kinda, but our BCI's tail is even redder than his... course we're wondering if she wasn't crossed with BCC... not sure - but she's really pink..and the tail of course..

Jon
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	Boa Constrictor Constrictor Red Tail Boa Constrictor (Boa constictor constrictor). Refers to "true" red tail boas such as the Guyana and Suriname locales.

	Boa Constrictor Imperator Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor imperator). Most common is the Colombian Boa.

[sophia]

Pix of the new Corns...
The Okeetee


The Amel. Motley... het for stripe

The Snow.. het for Amel.


And one more of our new baby Boa... on his new perch...


Jon & Tay
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	Heterozygous Heterozygous - the animal carries the gene for a genetic trait but does not outwardly demonstrate the trait. Example: A boa that is het for albino looks normal but carries the albino gene. When it is bred to another het for albino boa or an albino boa, a percentage of the offspring will be albino.

[Dr.Oviparous]

Nice new babies! I don't believe in crossing species/locale boas myself, But glad to see your new additions [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] -Juggalo
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[sophia]

>>Nice new babies! I don't believe in crossing species/locale boas myself, But glad to see your new additions [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] -

Well, we happen to think he's beautiful. Sure there is always the debate on cross breeding - and I can see both sides. However, it does happen in the wild in many species & cross breeding is also the cause of many of the popular morphs out there as well... i.e. like saying a blood red corn and a snow corn shouldn't be bred.... It's a hotly debated issue and one I don't care to get into at this point. I guess agree to disagree. Personally, I think the appearance of the snake is improved with the combination of the two breeds, and his temperment is fantastic and quite docile.

Besides looking at the broad range of genetics, humans included... we are ALL hybrids now anyway.

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	Morph A morph is a color or pattern variation that is proven to be genetic. Common morphs include albino, anerythristic, gentically striped, Hypomelanistic, and many others. Morphs also include combinations of simple traits such as "Sunglow" which is Albino and Hypomelanistic. These traits may be recessive traits, co-dominant traits, dominant traits, or created through selective breeding (ie Pastel).

[sophia]

I just wanted to add this quote concerning the ranges of boas in South and Central America to make the point that when ranges overlap, cross breeding occurs naturally, and since all boas are boa constrictor ... then this crossing is truly just a subspecies to subspecies crossing which is simply considered a 'morph' and not a 'genetic freak of nature', as this subspecies to subspecies breeding would generally occur naturally when males are ranging during the breeding season.

"The boa constrictor has the widest distribution range of the boines, occurring as far north as 100 miles south of the U.S. border in northern Mexico and as far south as about 38 degress south latitude in Argentina and Uruguay (about 68 degrees of latitude total). And fossil evidence indicates that its range was considerably more extensive at one time. The species with the most restricted distribution is the emerald tree boa (to about 16 degrees south latitude, about 23 degrees of latitude total), the only species among the five whose range does not extend below the Tropic of Capricorn in southern South America. The common tree boa, rainbow boa and green anaconda each have ranges that cover 36-42 degrees of latitude. More importantly, the geographic ranges of the five species overlap widely through the Guianas and the Amazon Basin."

This was taken from LORE magazine I believe 1994 was the print date. It can be found online at vaherper.com

Tay
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[XzyluM]

Nice, new additions!
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[sophia]

>>Nice, new additions!

Thank ya!

Jon & Tay
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[Ophiophagus-hannah]

They all look adorable! [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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[sophia]

>>They all look adorable! [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]


Thank you, I can't seem to help checking on the tiny, little girlies every few hours! Those corns are so tiny and cute!

Thanks for the kind words!

Tay and Jon
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[GizmO]

They are adorable babies!
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[sophia]

>>They are adorable babies!

Thank ya!

Jon [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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