One point that is not being understood clearly that while SOME maybe even MOST Homozygous Salmons have significantly reduced Black around the post tail blotches, this is NOT a foolproof method for determining Homozygous offspring. There are Hets that also have this same reduction in black. About the best you could do when sorting is to have a pile with black that are very probably hets and another pile with reduced black that have a higher probability of being homozygous. And that's only due to removing probable hets from the mix. You can never be certain since the probability for 25% Homozygous / 50% heterozogous / 25% Normal form a het x het breeding is just that....probable, we see litters that beat the odds and litters that get beat by the odds.
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Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)
2.7 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (adult breeders)
2.5 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (sub-adult from 2004)
4.8 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (sub-adult from 2005)
2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI Albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Salmon / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Salmon (possible super)
1.0 BCI Albino het stripe
1.0 BCI Salmon
0.1 BCI Ghost
0.1 BCI Super salmon, possible jungle
1.0 BCI Salmon, possible jungle
0.1 BCI Super Ghost

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