Motley has a "phantom hypo" effect. Thee is simply something about that particular genetic mutation that lightens and bightens the colorations, as well as reducing the black.

So, the snake may not be any type of hypo, but rather just exhibiting an unusual amount of what is often found in motlies. The only way to know for certain is to breed the snake to a non-motley hypo to see if the resulting babies come out as hypos o not.

Anyway...just a thought. You probably already knew that, but maybe someone else didn't.


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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

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• What Type of Hypo is this? - pinky, Sun Aug 27 22:12:30 2006
• RE: What Type of Hypo is this? - pinky, Sun Aug 27 22:13:45 2006
• RE: What Type of Hypo is this? - HerpZillA, Sun Aug 27 22:24:16 2006
• RE: What Type of Hypo is this? - pinky, Sun Aug 27 22:36:27 2006
• RE: What Type of Hypo is this? - HerpZillA, Sun Aug 27 22:51:11 2006
• RE: What Type of Hypo is this? - HerpZillA, Sun Aug 27 22:53:56 2006
• This adult looks like a Lava to me... - Spardawolf, Mon Aug 28 08:28:14 2006
• RE: This adult looks like a Lava to me.. - pinky, Mon Aug 28 09:08:39 2006
• RE: What Type of Hypo is this? - jyohe, Mon Aug 28 16:41:56 2006
• Did you say it was a motley? n/p - Darin Chappell, Mon Aug 28 16:58:49 2006
• RE: Did you say it was a motley? n/p - pinky, Mon Aug 28 20:28:44 2006
• I'm sure you already know this, but... - Darin Chappell, Tue Aug 29 08:28:09 2006
• Funny you mention this,,,, - HerpZillA, Tue Aug 29 10:43:34 2006
• Eyes . . . - DonSoderberg, Mon Aug 28 00:03:28 2006
• The Eyes are Ruby . - pinky, Mon Aug 28 09:30:00 2006
• The Parents of the neonates - pinky, Mon Aug 28 09:34:41 2006
• Statistically . . . - DonSoderberg, Mon Aug 28 18:14:14 2006
• Two Utramels then from Jeff - pinky, Mon Aug 28 20:35:09 2006
• Nice. . - DonSoderberg, Mon Aug 28 09:37:20 2006
• RE: Nice. . - pinky, Mon Aug 28 11:37:44 2006
• Ultra Anery - cornsnake00, Wed Aug 30 00:00:55 2006