Palumbo and I talked about it on his show… I just cannot recall which strain it was because boas are not my thing so my retention level is low with them
This is a copy paste from my discord. Let me know if you have any questions.
Super motley - lethal by 2, hetero still missing some amount of muscle and has small head and blown out sides
Super jungle - lethal to some initially others at 2-3 yo and the rest as older adults, any reproduction from these is a rumor from europe, there’s a handful over 5 but woo that’s a real victory to have a barely functioning 8 yo that cant breed
Smoke - keltic motley functionally like a super motley, basically a snake with a time limit
Super hypo - blown tire sidewalls, there’s some sort of musculature issue, breeds just fine and normal lifespan as far as anyone can tell
Super aztec - lethal to some, failure to the thrive in most, some of them live for awhile, I’ve never heard of them breeding
Raptor - just fine
Keywest/rlt/parsons - supers seem to die at an unusually high rate at birth, so they drown before birth, blown out sides like a super hypo imo
All T+ lines - seem fine
Onyx/leopard - this could be a boa sigma problem but they cant digest well as babies, get big bellies and die if over fed, it seems to me like its more common in the homozygote
Zero - some percent have narrow heads, no idea about long term issues with the narrow headed ones, zeros homozygotes do breed
Sangria/blood - het and homos seem okay
Kahl/sharp - bulging eyes full of fluid at birth, some eyes fail, some eye recover, linked to melanocyte not mediating eye formation so you cant breed away and antibiotics doesnt help keep the eye unless its getting secondarily infected
Kraken - not monogenic
Sterling - if zeros can have narrow heads can these as well?
Anerys - all of them beautiful and perfect in every way
Imgs - seem good, although how many people have a known homozygote
Marron - homozygotes dont breed as far as the internet will tell me
Fires - thin skin, small sclaes sometimes small eyes, i havent played with a homo fire but they breed… clearly
Jablonski ss - just fine
Labyrinth - heterozygote seems fine, rumors that some of the heterozygotes just never want to breed, no rumors about the homozygote yet. They’re all reportedly alive and doing okay.
I agree I’ve never seen narrow heads in sterlings either but boa people aren’t always the most forthcoming. Also, Idk if it’s “obvious” in zeros. Most zeros are normal. It seems rare for them to have a narrow head but common enough to me that it’s either legitimately a potential byproduct of the mutation or another mutant allele that needs to breed out of that lineage.
I don’t mean the morphology differences due to the natural variations between different localities. I’m saying that there are zeros where the heads look almost like super motley’s in terms of narrowness and distortion. I’ve attached a picture as an example.
Yes, I am agreeing with you, the head is lacking the prominent muscle structures. Also with a very short pointed nose instead of the normal more triangle/arrow shape with a clean stop for the “mustache”.
What about abrasque x abrasque? I have heard that there is a homo form but that there is also fertility issues with that pairing. Does anyone have any experience with this pairing?
I haven’t heard anything about the homozygote arabesque but since it’s dominant it would take a careful breeder to determine if the probable supers have a higher than normal failure to thrive rate.
