A question about morphs and aging

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Originally Posted by dkatz4

Also, is salmon a specific line of hypo, or another word for any hypo, I've read contradictory articles on the matter.

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The articles are probably contradictory because salmon is both.

Salmon is the name of Rich Ihle's breeding line of hypo BCIs. (See http://www.salmonboa.com)

Salmon is also the official name of the gene that produces the hypo appearance. The offical name of a gene is the name given it in a referreed scientific journal, such as the Journal of Heredity. (See http://www.salmonboa.com/pdf/JournalHeredity_May00.pdf) Often, the appearance that the gene produces has the same name as the gene. So depending on context, a salmon boa could be a boa from Rich Ihle's salmon breeding line or any hypo boa from any breeding line that has the salmon gene. As far as I know, all of the hypo breeding lines are either derived from the snake that originated Ihle's salmon line or derived from an independently collected snake with the salmon gene.

There are also some hypo lines found in central American locality not related the original salmon gene.
Here's a link to the history of the salmon boas established by Rich
Ihle:http://www.salmonboa.com/about.html
Then there are the "orange tail hypos" established by Jeff Gee which are not directly related to the original salmon founder (as far as we know).
Jeff Ronne, Boaphile, has established what is thought to be a pure Columbian locality hypo, very pretty, I don't know much about them to speculate.
aAll the lines are compatible (I know salmon and O.T are) and lots of the hypos out there are mixes or just can't be traced directly back to where it started from.
Except for any pure Columbian hypo lines, they are all locality mixes of Columbian x Panama boas from my understanding. (the original founding salmon female is thought to be Panama locality per Rich)

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Originally Posted by dkatz4

SO hears the the thing: although the babies look awesome, i feel like every adult hypo i see is very much brown on brown -

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Yes, this is true, all boas develop the yellow pigment as they age (over years). This is why boas 'brown' out. The baby grey colorations they have fade and slowly turn tan/brown.
There is some good advise already given in this thread about breeders and morphs (there are other great breeders out there as well than the ones listed of course).

I'm a personal fan of the Harlequin line boas, similar to 'pastel' they are a line bred trait and tend to be more colorful as adults. I am way overdue for posting some pics of my harlequin line animals.
It's hard to go wrong with a great color/contrast normal/pastel.
Good luck in your search

The more i read and see the more i am leaning toward, as AbsoluteApril said, a normal from a color enhanced line or color enhancing morph. I spent some time looking up pictures of adult hypos and the color scheme just does not appeal to me (now watch, i'm going to end up getting a hypo, this is what i always do). I've seen some well priced jungles out there, though like i said, i love the aberrant saddles, but the jungles who show that trait are always way pricey. I'm also not giving up on BCC's. I may not end up with a pedigree, but for the right price, a few peaks and a nice cherry tail would suit me just fine - remember, no breeding or reselling here, just looking for a pretty pet.