If I could have any "NORMAL" patterned Kenyan Sand Boa, I'd want a nuclear meltdown or a high orange flame. The normal patterned Kenyan sand boas are also known as the 'wild type' or in another words, this is the pattern you would typically find in the wild, black/brown saddles with a yellow to orange coloring. The Nuclear Meltdown is a cross between a Nuclear Kenyan Sand Boa (line bred by Roy Stockwell of Canada to an almost fire engine red) and a locality snake known as the Dodoma Valley sand boa or simply known as a Dodoma (reduced patterned as to the saddles and a gene that will stop their color from flecking out as they age). Here is two examples of each....sorry, none of these snakes pictured are for sale.
2009 Nucular Meltdown Male
2009 Nucular Meltdown Male
2009 High Orange Flame Female
The Anerythristic or 'Anery' (sometimes also referred to as an Axantic, both terms are correct because anerythristic and axantic describe lacking in red/orange/yellow pigment which are all colors of normal Kenyans Sand Boas) or 'Black and Whites' are customer favorites, lately, we are seeing a trend to emphasize the extreme black saddle color, the high white color and a reduced patterned saddle (like a dodoma). While there are better examples of high white reduced patterned anery's, some times referred to as dodoma anery's (although this is a confusing name because Dodoma is a locality), we are pretty happy to have this future breeding pair of anery's in our collection.
2009 Female High White Reduced Patterned Anery
Next two below: 2009 Male High White Reduced Pattern Anery
The snow Kenyan sand boas are a simple double recessive trait, lacking the black saddles and the rich colors of a Normal sand boa. The holy grail of the snow sand boa has to be the yellow snows. I purchased 2.2 (two pairs) of snow sand boas last year from a litter of two yellow snow sand boas. These two are coming along nicely but if you notice the females saddles look like they will turn yellow by adulthood, whereas, the male does not look like his saddles will turn yellow. It's a crazy phenomenon where breeding a yellow snow male and a yellow snow female does not guarantee that all the resulting litters saddles will turn yellow.
2009 Female Yellow Snow (next 2 images)
2009 Male Yellow Snow
We love the albinos, especially, the ones with lavendar saddles to contrast their great high orange color. The albino (also referred to as an amelanistic) is a simple recessive trait that lacks the black/brown pigment found in the normal Kenyan sand boa. We are trying to selectively breed our albino's for the lavendar trait but need more females to be successful. If you have an albino female with lavendar colored saddles, please contact
Mark@LHALegal.com and let's work a deal, trades, cash, or even children can be sent in exchange.
2010 Male Lavendar Albinos (next three images)
