Well, for those who have not been following the developments of the Prodigy Boa project, here is the short version of it.
Clay English made the first Prodigy Boas in 2006 using a female I produced, from a bloodline I have worked with for nearly 20 years. The male he obtained in 2001 from a California Reptile dealer.
Here are their babies:
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Since then I have become the sole keeper of all the adult gene carrying Prodigy lot. I produced a litter of Hypos and Motleys het Prodigy in 2009 from a female Prodigy bred with a Hypo Motley male.
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May 15, 2011 I was fortunate to breed a male Prodigy with a female possible Het Prodigy that proved to in fact be a Het and made a mess of Prodigies and Het Prodigies. Here are some of those babies:
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These babies seem to be the lightest of the T-Positive lines with super clean backgrounds and brilliant red tails. Very little darker colors invading the tail blotches as well. Super clean and super light. Here they are with some het siblings for contrast. Even the hets have crazy nice red tails.
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Well, he had to know if this mutation was going to be on the exact same locus as the Sharp Albino and the Boa Woman Caramel are so we tried that breeding with success. The BUG surprise was this;
Sharp + BWC + Paradigm. The Paradigm is lighter than the BWC and darker than the Sharp. So we expected, if the same location was in play here that the resulting offspring would similarly be lighter than the Prodigies while darker than the Sharp. This is NOT the case though. Don't ask me to explain why but this combination results in what I have named the "Paradise Boa" which is darker than both contributing genetic mutations. I have no clue why but it is what it is. Here are a couple of them.
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Then post shed:
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They were born June 11, 2011 and so far show no sign of turning into more "typical" colored Boas. They are not browning out or darkening at all yet. Here is a shot taken when they were almost 8 weeks old.
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and another:
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And another shot taken just a couple days ago at nearly three months of age:
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If anything their color is more intense and more different from the typical. This is quite a bit different from the results of breeding the Sharp into the BWC bloodline.
One nice benefit I suppose of the Paradise Boas looking so much different from the Prodigy Boas is the ease with which they can be differentiated in the event that litter are produced in the future where both are produced.
Below here is another interesting shot of a Prodigy adult male at the top, a VPI T-Pos female on the left and and adult male BWC on the right.
Great stuff! I have significant numbers of all three of the Prodigy, VPI-T Positive and the BWC bloodlines. I have many plans for them all in the future. Lots and lots to look forward to. I love Boas and seeing what else comes next.
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Clay English made the first Prodigy Boas in 2006 using a female I produced, from a bloodline I have worked with for nearly 20 years. The male he obtained in 2001 from a California Reptile dealer.
Here are their babies:
Since then I have become the sole keeper of all the adult gene carrying Prodigy lot. I produced a litter of Hypos and Motleys het Prodigy in 2009 from a female Prodigy bred with a Hypo Motley male.
May 15, 2011 I was fortunate to breed a male Prodigy with a female possible Het Prodigy that proved to in fact be a Het and made a mess of Prodigies and Het Prodigies. Here are some of those babies:
These babies seem to be the lightest of the T-Positive lines with super clean backgrounds and brilliant red tails. Very little darker colors invading the tail blotches as well. Super clean and super light. Here they are with some het siblings for contrast. Even the hets have crazy nice red tails.
Well, he had to know if this mutation was going to be on the exact same locus as the Sharp Albino and the Boa Woman Caramel are so we tried that breeding with success. The BUG surprise was this;
Sharp + BWC + Paradigm. The Paradigm is lighter than the BWC and darker than the Sharp. So we expected, if the same location was in play here that the resulting offspring would similarly be lighter than the Prodigies while darker than the Sharp. This is NOT the case though. Don't ask me to explain why but this combination results in what I have named the "Paradise Boa" which is darker than both contributing genetic mutations. I have no clue why but it is what it is. Here are a couple of them.
Then post shed:
They were born June 11, 2011 and so far show no sign of turning into more "typical" colored Boas. They are not browning out or darkening at all yet. Here is a shot taken when they were almost 8 weeks old.
and another:
And another shot taken just a couple days ago at nearly three months of age:
If anything their color is more intense and more different from the typical. This is quite a bit different from the results of breeding the Sharp into the BWC bloodline.
One nice benefit I suppose of the Paradise Boas looking so much different from the Prodigy Boas is the ease with which they can be differentiated in the event that litter are produced in the future where both are produced.
Below here is another interesting shot of a Prodigy adult male at the top, a VPI T-Pos female on the left and and adult male BWC on the right.
Great stuff! I have significant numbers of all three of the Prodigy, VPI-T Positive and the BWC bloodlines. I have many plans for them all in the future. Lots and lots to look forward to. I love Boas and seeing what else comes next.
