The mother of my “Key West Boa” proven breeder male was born in 1999 or 2000 in New York. Zach Murray owns the mother of my male. Zach is sometimes known as “Crotalus”, lives in the Florida Keys where he produced a litter that included my male in 2005. Zach had been pretty much a locality interested guy and was unfamiliar with all the morphs. In 2005 when Zach produced the babies, he knew they were beautiful, but was unaware of the genetic prize he had found in that first litter of Boas. Zach gave a number of those babies to friends and sold some to others. This is the mother of that litter that started it all:
I first saw my male when the person who Zach had given him to had posted a picture of him asking what he was. They had named him “Nina” not knowing his sex. Nina was a pet Boa not a breeder. After I saw him, I posted exactly what I believed he could be and set about obtaining him. After a long negotiation I was fortunate to make the deal. After his picture was first posted and before I obtained him, I found out about Zach and had a great conversation with him. Zach had taken pictures of most of the babies from that 2005 litter. So in my mind I had seen exactly what I was hoping I would see again. That is if I could get him to reproduce for me, and if my results were just like Zach’s. Fortunately they were. Note how the Key West babies Zach produced are the identical color of their Grandmother, while the normal babies are normal baby Colombian Boa gray. Here are some of Zach’s babies from the litter in 2005:
This one is actually my male taken as a youngster:
Him now:
This is a female that Zach owns as she looks today:
What will come from this female when additional genes producing more color are introduced? I cannot imagine a more beautiful Colombian Boa that this one. The second female Colombian I had back in the 80’s was this color. I have not seen one since. I CANNOT begin to imagine what the Hypo version of this animal is going to look like! Can you? Even more mind boggling for me is if we are fortunate to eventually prove out a “Super Key”… I am weak in the knees thinking about how crazy that could be!
Here are a few more pictures of the Key West puppies that we were fortunate to have born here Oct. 10, 2009!
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