technically it's not a triple het even though the snake is referred by that name. The reason is, hypo's are a co-dominant trait. And the other two traits are simple recessive. The snake is Homozygous for one trait and double het for two recessive traits. Offspring will be as follows. 1/16 "snow glow"(hypo/anry/albino) , 9/16 hypo , 3/16 sunglow(hypo/albino), 3/16 ghost(hypo/Anerythristic). Your 9/16 hypos(appear as normal hypos) will consist of plain hypos het for nothing, hypo's het for one trait, and hypo's het for both traits(Anerythristic and albino). Out of the 9/16 group you would need breed them in order to prove them out. Remember this is just statistically speaking and you might not even have 16 babies.. so chance plays a big part

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• triple het question~ - ivanacebo, Thu Mar 2 07:13:37 2006
• RE: triple het question~ - vcane, Thu Mar 2 07:33:31 2006
• RE: triple het question~ - tex959, Thu Mar 2 08:33:08 2006
• hypo does not mean homozygous - jayf, Thu Mar 2 09:45:59 2006
• I think jay is right on that. - tex959, Thu Mar 2 15:26:51 2006
• RE: I think jay is right on that. - rainbowsrus, Thu Mar 2 15:53:34 2006