Salmon Boa Female (DUW)

[Patrick Long]

So yesterday my gf and I followed up on a CL ad for Salmon Boas. We went to the location, and was in love. (not to mention we could care for them better than they could). Here is one of the females. She was titled as a "Salmon Boa", but that was it. Anyone have any suggestions as to what she is? Thanx so much!

[ADEE]

I dont know that shes a salmon.. i thought they had a more pink/red look to them.. shes pretty though

[Patrick Long]

shes a lot more colorful in sunlight, but those pics are on my gfs camera. she looks alot different than the normal columbian female he had, a lot different

[ADEE]

if you google "salmon boa" you will get what comes to mind to me... such as

http://www.boasandballs.com/Photo's/...n%2002f%20.jpg

and variations of that.. she looks much darker to me, but then again im not an expert, congrats on the pick up shes very freckly (is that a word?)

[Patrick Long]

haha, she was the more spotted one, we are trying to pick up the other female and male soon. i actually looked at that same pic, but i thought i got that under super salmon? i have no idea

[ADEE]

didnt knwo there was a "super salmon" i suppose there could be..

thats just what i found, there were lots of salmon boa pictures when you look up "salmon boa" under google image search, that was just a normal looking salmon one (not hypo, exc)..

perhaps a more seasoned boa owner can help

[Patrick Long]

i know ive been on google for about three hours now and they very so much. and most of the ones i see are hatchlings. and she is about 3-4 feet

[ladywhipple02]

She looks like a hypomelanistic boa... I don't know if she's a salmon or not.

There are different lines of Hypo in boas, just like there are different lines of pastels in BPs, Lemon and Graziani. There's the Orange Tail line, the Salmon line, etc. So, for her to be a Salmon boa, she would have to be a hypo from that line... which is really hard to tell without proper paperwork.

Super hypos or super salmons have very little black on them, as well as very small saddles. They are usually very clean and very bright.

Nice pick-up... she should make some nice looking hypos for you down the road... or even, dare I say...... ghosts?!

[ladywhipple02]

didnt knwo there was a "super salmon" i suppose there could be..

thats just what i found, there were lots of salmon boa pictures when you look up "salmon boa" under google image search, that was just a normal looking salmon one (not hypo, exc)..

perhaps a more seasoned boa owner can help

Supers are normally quite a bit cleaner, with less black in them. Supers can, however, look quite a bit like normals... these are usually questionable as to whether or not they are really supers and are labeled as possibles (they will not be from a super to super breeding, but from normal hypo to normal hypo).

Supers are homozygous for the hypo gene. When bred to a normal, they will produce all supers.

[Monty]

looks sorta like a mite phase to me