the term "heterozygous" refers to a 'normal' looking offspring carrying a recessive trait. In this case, Albino, or if you wanted to go DH, albino/anery.

Some people argue that some het albino boas have random white scales blotched in the body. I can somewhat agree to this, as I have a 7' female with paperwork that has such scales. However, it's not enough evidence to consider it a rule for ALL het albino boas. Some may have it, others may not.

Same thing goes for anery. There may be a select few anerys with the reduced pattern that you mentioned, but I do know people who have DH snow boas that if being sold in a store, could be a typical $100 boa and nobody would know the difference.

Point and case, there is always going to be a handful of boas with something sticking out that catches our eye. such as white scales, reduced patterns, or even excessive speckling. There has not yet been a proven different appearing "het" offspring in the boa world. Not saying it wont happen, just hasn't yet, in order for that to happen, ALL DH snow boas out there would have to have this reduced pattern.

The Ball Pythons have..... forgive me if this is the wrong snake, black eyed Leucistic, which is a recessive trait. (damn those ball pythons, good for nothing I tell ya) The heterozygous form of those are visibly different from normal ball python offspring, they're called Fire Balls.

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• How many people agree... - JOEP123, Sat Apr 15 22:24:58 2006
• RE: How many people agree... - VolcomHerp, Sat Apr 15 23:24:07 2006
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• you're right - NUCCIZ_BOAS, Sun Apr 16 12:03:37 2006
• FANTASTIC REPLYS... - JOEP123, Sun Apr 16 12:24:47 2006
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