in a jungle litter, there could be a normal that has traits of a jungle. This would fall on the breeders ability to ID the jungles. In a way, the comparison is similiar but still... In a jungle litter there may be one or two borderline boas that are sold as possibles. How many boas, that were thought to be jungles, have proven to be normals? Ive never heard of any. How many boas, that were thought to be super-hypos, have proven to be non-supers. Lots! Of course there have been many more hypo breedings but still... if it were a factor with jungles we would have seen it by now. It is possible for a normal to be mislabeled as a jungle but it is highly unlikely. The same cannot be said regarding super hypos (except for super x super liters).

Im with you in that it is fine to grade and price possible super hypo boas based on how strong one feels it is a super. But it still doesn't seem right to me to call it a super-hypo, because in truth no one knows for sure.
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• Hypos, Hogs, and Simple Dominance - RyanHomsey, Fri Apr 7 19:07:18 2006
• Easy answer. Its called a marketing ploy - Randall_Turner, Fri Apr 7 19:13:41 2006
• RE: Hypos, Hogs, and Simple Dominance - PanamaRed, Fri Apr 7 19:41:17 2006
• The thing is - RyanHomsey, Fri Apr 7 19:57:33 2006
• RE: The thing is - PanamaRed, Fri Apr 7 20:22:29 2006
• It certainly is possible that - RyanHomsey, Fri Apr 7 21:05:37 2006
• disregard the "(except super x super)" - RyanHomsey, Fri Apr 7 21:09:09 2006
• RE: Hypos, Hogs, and Simple Dominance - DaveyFig, Fri Apr 7 23:44:05 2006
• What is a "Blonde"??? - vcaruso15, Sat Apr 8 09:04:22 2006
• RE: What is a "Blonde"??? - DaveyFig, Sat Apr 8 14:04:30 2006
• Yea that has to be darn near impossible. - vcaruso15, Sat Apr 8 16:19:59 2006
• RE: Yea that has to be darn near impossible. - DaveyFig, Sat Apr 8 17:16:21 2006
• RE: Hypos, Hogs, and Simple Dominance - vcaruso15, Fri Apr 7 19:47:00 2006
• also............... - vcaruso15, Fri Apr 7 19:50:33 2006
• help for the new be..... - lynnsnakecharmer, Sat Apr 8 09:24:40 2006
• RE: help for the new be..... - vcaruso15, Sat Apr 8 16:17:30 2006