Boa pics, please

[Sandra]

You'll see me asking for lost of pics these days, as I'm finishing my leopard gecko morph dossier (after two long years... Stop producing new morphs already, dang!). I hope it gets "finished" by August (like something like this could be truly ever finished...).

I'm now looking for pics to lighten up a bit the all-text parts of it. There's a section where I state that mutations can inhibit, reduce or enhance the functions a gene carries out. I instantly thought of melanistic and hypomelanistic boas and how well they would illustrate the fact.

Could anyone share pics of their hypo and melanistic boas? Of course, that person and his/her website would be mentioned in the article. I see this boa forum is not very active but I don't like the idea of joining a boa website just to ask for pics... So if anybody knows of someone outside geckoforums that owns these kind of boas who would be willing to share the pics so I can contact him/her directly, that would help too.

Thanks in advance :main_thumbsup:

 

[T&KBrouse]

I can help with a ghost suri and a silver phase pastel, if you'd like. They are still babies, though. (Well, yearling and baby)
I also have a 100% het albino that has "markers" and a high pink.
Don't have any hypos, though. :main_no:

 

[Sandra]

Thanks for offering T&KBrouse! The truth is that I don't know too much about boa morphs, I don't know the difference between pastels and hypos. I just thought of using this species as an example because there aren't that many species with melanistic populations.

I'm thinking about including also an albino and a normal. That way it would illustrate all four instances: the inhibition of melanine production (amelanism), the reduction (hypomelanism), the normal appearance and the enhancement (melanism). That would be cool.