Our Black Boa

Hello together,

I’d like to introduce in this thread our Black Boa.

In the past my friend bought an imported pair of Costa Rican boas. This pair we bred together and in the year 1998 there was a black baby with abnormal patterns in the litter. This black baby was a female and we hold this girl to check later the genetic of this mutation.
http://www.blackboa.de/pics/blackboa-female1998.jpg

Two years later the Costa Rican pair had one more litter and also in this litter was a black baby (wow)! We had luck because the black baby was a male .
http://www.blackboa.de/pics/blackboa-male2000.jpg

In the year 2004 we bred these two black boas together and the whole litter was black :D .
http://www.blackboa.de/pics/litter2004.jpg

We gave this new recessive mutation the name “Black Boa”.

Headshot of an adult Black Boa cb'2004.
http://www.blackboa.de/pics/blackboa-adult-portrait.jpg

Black Boa male cb'2007
http://www.blackboa.de/pics/blackboa-male2007.jpg

Thanks and best regards
Markus

Nice! Those babies are just awesome!

Any chance a couple of those babies are for sale? :P

Wow. All I can say. Wow.

yeaahh wow..gorgeous.:bow:

I had never considered keeping a Boa, but if I were able to find one of those I certainly would buy one! Those are just incredible! Congratulations on proving those Black Boas out.

Would those happen to be the Costa Rican version of the Leopard boa? They all look extremely similar besides the baby in the last picture. Congrats on proving it out that's awesome!

Not a big BOA fan but this is one awesome mutation !!!:bow::bow::bow:

Fantastic:gj:

Wow those boa's are hot.....:gj:

Definitely gorgeous!! :D That's awesome that you were able to prove it out!! Those last two pics are stunning... looks like they have some nice iridescence to them as well.

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Originally Posted by Luke Martin

Would those happen to be the Costa Rican version of the Leopard boa? They all look extremely similar besides the baby in the last picture. Congrats on proving it out that's awesome!

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This is exactly what I thought, because the Leopard morph is recessive so it could have been two hets that were bred, and because Leopard is more of a Central American BCI type thing and Costa Rica is in Central America...

AMAZING boas, by the way! Congrats :D

That Headshot Is Absolutely Gorgeous... So Jealous.

Absolutely beautiful...love the look of an all black snake and I love boas...those are going to be very popular. Well done :)

They are really nice. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks at all...

The Black Boas are looking a little bit similar to Hans Leopards. Until now nobody has proven whether the gens are compatible, but I think somebody will check it in the future. The adults are between 1.8 and 2.1 meter and I think a little bit bigger than the Mexicans. When the Black Boas are born all babies are dark but in the first year with each shed you see that some of them are getting brighter and you see more patterns. In my opinion this is the variation of all boa litters or all snakes.

If somebody is interested in a Black Boa send me an email.

Best regards
Markus