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This snake was imported for resale but needless to say when it landed "someone" shouted shotgun and it became one of the collection. It is a Lipstick coral sunglow motley. the name has been shortened to "Woer woer boa".
He managed to produce a few nice babies but obviously the slugs were all the sunglows because there was only one sunglow and I shouted shotgun on this one for me.
Now even though motley and salmon/hypo are both co-dom genes the male could only pass on either salmon or motley but not both. To make salmon motleys you have to use an motley on a salmon and for a sunglow motley you have to use a sunglow on an albino motley and get a single co dom gene from each parent and the recessive gene from both parents.
The coral and lipstick are line bred traits and even though the father is diffused with coral I dont know how you see lipstick. It does make him very pretty though. The albino motley babies are obviously a cut above the others you see on the market because of this.
Then there are some babies from another coral line. Many people claim to have corals but if you look at what this baby looks like there is no doubt. People say you have to wait months to be sure but I am pretty sure this is way prettier than any other albinos at a month old. If you get offered a coral albino and it does not look like this then its probably not a coral.
Even the motley het albino looks very clean and crisp so possibly the coral does something besides making the orange dots on the albinos?
I am not too disappointed with this boa season and virtually all the babies ate straight after shedding which is great. Last year we had a few that took ages to start feeding properly. Now I have to find place to keep back a few AGAIN.
