Morph List and Possibilities

Most people don't begin to keep and breed sand boas to enjoy the science side of things. They want to appreciate the beauty of the snakes and be able to hold and care for the living art they work so hard to keep happy. Most of the time, keepers catch reptile fever and end up with a hoard, and with all the morphs and mutations out on the market today the possibilities are nearly infinite! Here's a quick list of a few...

Recessive-

Albino

Anery

Albino Paradox

Hypo

Splash

Paint

LineBred-

Nuclear 

Locality-

Dodoma

Flame

Rufescens is kind of its own little thing. If you breed a Ruf to a normal you would get a bunch of stripes and tigers. However you could not breed two stripes to one another and produce a 100% Rufescens animal. You can, however, breed a stripe to a normal and produce stripes. The farther you get from the original Rufescens blood, the less of a chance there is for a stripe to be in the litter. This topic is one I want to get into more detail on in the future.

 I know i forgot Tiger but I'm not sure where that fits in to it all. Tiger really isnt much of a morph, most look like normals. I see the Tiger morph almost like a marker, just to signify that there is a certain percentage of rufescens in a snake, because you cant breed two tigers back to get a stripe phenotype, you'd just end up with a bunch of normal looking boas.

Now many of these morphs have already been combined and in high volume. The snow morph is a combination of both the albino and anery morphs (Anerythristic is a lack of red pigmentation) and is now fairly common and inexpensive. Paradox Albinos, which are a completely different gene than regular albinos have also been coupled with the anery gene to create paradox snows. Several new morphs that have surfaced fairly recently include the Paint gene, which was proven out under Jeff Holloway of Holloway Herps. Those snakes are smokin'! The possibilities really are endless with all thats available. My personal favorite is the addition of the line bred beauty of the Nuclears from Roy Stockwell in Canada into any morph. It adds serious contrast and color that only gets richer! Just imagine a Nuclear Albino Paint! Someone will do it eventually, and we'll be waiting.