A question for all you boa peeps... and everyone else, too

The possibility exists that Santa will be very good to me this year (hopefully my luck will take a nice change for the better). Anyway, I'm attempting to do a little planning ahead---for later breeding projects---and was wondering what you guys thought.

I really want me a ghost boa. And being as I'll never be able to afford one myself, I figure I'll just make myself one. So, here's my question: do I get a DH Ghost boa to start? Or do I get a really nice hypo? Here's what I'm looking at (these are both from Special K Reptiles):

DH Ghost:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...02/DHGhost.jpg

Hypo:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...ple02/Hypo.jpg

They both run about the same price---maybe $50 difference towards the DH Ghost.

So, what do you think?

i couldnt tell you the first thing about boa morphs but I am drooling over that hypo :)
good luck with your decision.

Happy Holidays!

If your end result will be a Ghost, I would assume that getting the DH Ghost will shorten the steps in producing one.

Hypo is a co dom trait meaning if you breed a hypo to a normal, you get hypos in the litter as well as normals. You would need Either
1 Hypo het anery and 1 anery
1 hypo het anery and 1 het anery
2 hypo het anery.
The last and first ones will give you the most % of ghosts than the other I posted.
Hope this helps

I guess I should've made my intentions clearer:


I realize if I get the hypo there will be extra steps involved. If I chose that path, I would get a very nice anery to breed it to, keep the possible DH hets, etc.

My question I guess is: would you recommend getting the DH Ghost and taking the shorter path (it is a very nice Het). Or do you get one very nice Hypo and very nice anery and start from scratch, per say?

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Originally Posted by ladywhipple02

I guess I should've made my intentions clearer:


I realize if I get the hypo there will be extra steps involved. If I chose that path, I would get a very nice anery to breed it to, keep the possible DH hets, etc.

My question I guess is: would you recommend getting the DH Ghost and taking the shorter path (it is a very nice Het). Or do you get one very nice Hypo and very nice anery and start from scratch, per say?

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If you got babies and went the 2nd way, you would be looking at 6+ years before you would make a ghost. If you went with a DH and an anery, you COULD produce ghosts in a few years. Its up to you but I wouldn't want to wait 6+ years to produce a snake that will be MUCH cheaper to buy by then

Point taken. I didn't think about that... see, that's why I asked. All you all bring up ideas I never thought about!

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Originally Posted by ladywhipple02

Point taken. I didn't think about that... see, that's why I asked. All you all bring up ideas I never thought about!

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Glad we could help!!