How important is it and have you done it that way yourself ?
This specimen is
Vpi het anery/ vpi sunglow red panther x het vpi pink panther
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Went on to a new home
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For genetics I only breed what I like to keep for myself. I don’t breed to just make money from my boas. If I did I would not give boas away for free to some people I kown. If I am lucky I break even after taking care, housing and feeding my boas. This is just a fun hobby for me.
I have Kahl albino, sunglow, lipstick, hellboy, coral, Groovy, Kubsch pastle, hypo, jungle, motley, anery T1, arabesque, VIP albino, and harlequin genetics in my collection of boas. I know some of the above are just traits not genetics.
Plan on adding snowglow IMG, and maybe albino NFI, to my boas. But for now I am concentrating on my Northern Brazilian BCC X BCI and Southern Brazilian BCA X BCI sunglow crosses. I am trying to make boas that are bigger and have lots of color to them.
I don’t like the dwarf boas like the blood boas. I have made a very pink / red BCCXBCI sunglow that is starting to develop purple sides now. So with any luck he won’t yellow out like most sunglow or brown out like the dwarf blood boas do. I will see what he looks like in about 2 years. Then with more breedings I hope to prove something new out maybe in the years to come.
Over the years I have traded and bought non related boas to get new bloodlines in my collection so I can breed them into my collection. This way I am not breeding parents back to their own babies when trying to make new morphs. I try not to breed anything over a F3. I have done F1 sofar. It was my BCI female sunglow motley jungle to my BCCXBCI male hypo jungle het albino. They both have the same father my first sunglow motley jungle named Aang.
What are your breeding and genetic plans?
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Beautiful baby!!
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This year 
Though, it is appearing like super jungles might not have the issues as previously thought, and could just be a source of being inbred.
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I’m not sure what you mean by “reduces their tools”, I personally don’t let my reptiles have access to tools (power or otherwise) for their safety
That being said, the issue with inbreeding is the concentration of potentially deleterious variants. We all - humans, snakes, dogs, etc have mutations throughout our genome, many do nothing, some are bad. Thankfully, there’s redundancy build into the system - we have two copies of each gene, so if one is damaged/non-functioning, hopefully the 50% of gene product is enough to make up for that. When you start inbreeding animals, since they’re already related, there’s a higher chance of the offspring having that mutation in both copies of that gene (since they get half of DNA from mom, half from dad).
Let’s use cystic fibrosis for example. Roughly 1 in 29 caucasians of European descent is a carrier for cystic fibrosis, meaning they have a mutation in one of their CFTR genes. So if person A is a carrier, and has a child with another random person within the same population, the odds of them having a child with cystic fibrosis (two mutated CFTR genes) is 1 in 841. If person A is a carrier and should instead have a baby with their brother who is also a carrier, the odds of them having a baby with cystic fibrosis is 1 in 4.
Inbreeding does not guarantee health issues, but it does increase the chances. It’s all a matter of odds. What those resulting issues are depends on the genes affected and can be different for each pairing. It could be birth defects, a high predisposition to cancer, a shorter lifespan, metabolic issues, etc
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Is this boa a Nicaraguan boa or a blood boa? The tail reminds me of a Nicaraguan T+ albino.
I don’t breed Nicaraguan or blood boas because they are a dwarf boa and the few adults I have seen are a brown / rust color. So I would assume your boa will brown out. I really don’t know for sure as I don’t know alot about blood boa genetics or the Nicaraguan boa.
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Their blood vpi hypo
Understood
Well i was gonna breed back some.babies to their parents but friends of mine i say loosñy traded me some different boas to me …
I dont really wanna breed back to the parents anymore and have chosen to use different males to the same females ive bred so far by keeping a selection of male variants … the only thing in having trouble with is just my narrowed selection of kahl genes … which im just down to one female one male
A brick red lipstick het kahl snow
And a hoggisland hypo kahl albino
I bred her already too him but i added in a second male hypo het vpi whos very dirty in melanin to try and steal the lipstick over to vpi a bit
I know what you mean now and further dont want to inbreed my snakes … so ive chosen to bring in a difference to varigate what i have available …
It works for humans and dogs too … my cats are inbred tho… but that was their own selection from being out side
The dad was the dad again to the daughter
Resulting in mostly white babies where the tabby orange was just an orange wash over the white with no banding
Some got a grey tabby wash and one got a paint splash of grey blue and orange …
As for temperment their strong and defend well
They are barn cats …