Really cool thanks for the information. It's a gorgeous litter and I'm excited to see what happens with the super Morran jungle. There's a couple of those marron jungles that are absolutely gorgeous, I love that clean look and that silvery purplish tone they have. Great update and congrats again on a successful season it seems 🐍💪
Yes I bought that super maran and before shipping the guy tells me he can't sell it to me he decided to keep it I was quite furious but he ended up selling me a couple Hat leopard Miranda's for a quarter of the price
If you do let that super marron jungle female go...I will definitely contact you right away...the two I'm interested in..are her and her colorful slightly saturated marron jungle brother..how can I find out the price and information about these babies?
How would a guy identify a super jungle vs jungle? If I had to wager guesses before you identified them, I’d have thought the first animal you showed would have been the double super.
Super jungles have a very aberrant pattern, often very linear and thin or even reduced/patternless. They also have very large, distictive eyes. There were no super jungles in the litter; the first animal is a super marron with just one copy of jungle.
Marrons were first produced in 2007 by a German breeder called Joern Pelkofer. Here is some more information: www.reptileforums.co.uk/threads/pastel-co-dom-possible-super-pastel-have-a-look.247755/
Congrats Brian. I have to admit that the babies a very beautiful. Nevertheless, you know that I'm not a fan of playing God and creating animals. From my point of view the locality boas are even more beautiful and they get better and better while getting older while morph boas tend to get less attractive over the time. I think we should breed and keep natural boas in order to preserve them cause sooner or later they will disappear in the wild.
Thanks. I agree that it is very important to keep pure lineages of boas in captivity as close to those in the wild as possible. But I also like these domesticated boas- there is something for everyone in the boa hobby!
I believe there's room for both versions of reptile keeping. Remember it is nature that created these genes, and there is even an argument that they benefit natural selection by encouraging us humans to breed them. Considering the crazy unique ways natural selection and general evolution proliferates certain genetics, both within a single species and between species interaction and co-evolution, I can see the logic. That said, I do love locality animals and locality "morphs" that generally are found in the wild, just not more than the "wild" type. There's areas that are known for this with Ball Pythons, and many smaller area examples with boas (Leopard boas in Sonora and Costa Rica, along with many Hypomelanistic examples across central America, Abberant pattern genetic examples etc) Regardless I just think there's room for both and benefits to both, as many get into reptiles from seeing beautiful and striking morph animals, maybe even losing a lifelong fear.
those snakes are beautiful. but I'm against any kind of breeding that would weaken a snake in any way. even if its just being more delicate. I know that there are actually quite a few morphs of ball python that often suffer from some kind of disease. (at least this is what I read) I don't want same thing to happen to boa morphs. i also believe that no one should be creating albino snakes because they wouldn't survive in the wild. I know they will most likely never be in the wild but that is beside the point. If you breed merle to merle dog it often has lots of health problems. if you breed merle dog with any other color its perfectly fine. from what I read it seems that any kind of super to super color has a similar type of problems in snakes ,of course I could be wrong I don't know much about genetics but this seems to be the trend.
