Salmon and Orangetail

[JimiSnakes]

Now on that note - I have been selling my baby hypos and poss supers as orange tail/Panamanian for the ones that I have not bred out of their linage and they visually are different from most salmons. I like to be true to my customers so now I should just say they are orange tails and forget about Panama until this is cleared up? Moral issue.. I like to make sure I pass on the correct info to others. Especially my customers. hmmm

Haha, now you're just twisting things all up. It even says in the book that OT's are Central American PANAMANIANS. It's the same terminology just more finely tuned down to PANAMA. This is getting silly though. I'm pretty sure we are both saying pretty much the same thing but just using different wording.

Well, you can get it from the horses mouth tell him to post an explanation hehehe. I can only rely on what is documented.

It doesn't seem to me that the two are any different, documentation or "horses mouth". Vin doesn't seem to have any doubts in his mind that Salmons originated from Panamanian BCI or he wouldn't have put them in the Boas of Panama section, lol. There is some things that aren't in his book for whatever reasons he chose, probably so he doesn't get into the "politics" of the Boa industry. Like his take on the Leopard gene for example, but that's a topic he should post about and is not my place to do for him.

This is the parts of the book that aren't shown in your post (the part of Orangetails or OT's being from PURE CENTRAL AMERICANS) that reiterate what I've been saying, and pretty much what you've been saying too-


*Pages from Vin Russo of Cutting Edge Herps, The Complete Boa Constrictor

Now, I'm done with this topic since it's really going no where and I don't want to hijack this thread anymore than we already did. You can pm, email, or even call me anytime to discuss this farther. All lines are always open for friendly Boa chat. Email and phone number on my website.