From the babies you got, the indication is that you have nice looking hypo A corns. You didn't get enough babies to make this official, but no way both parents could be het ultra, since amels cannot be het ultra. If the normal was het ultra, it's possible to get what you got, but you should also have gotten the ultramel equivalent of snows (ghost-looking anery ultramels). Again, you may have just missed getting some, since your brood was so small, but if I had to recommend that someone keep the non-albino adult as being het ultra, I'd advise against it. I've hatched many hypos like the one you showed us. They're just stunning. People think that gray on a hypo means the ultra gene is present. Gray has been replacing black on non-ultra hypos for over 20 years.

Final analysis: I'm saying the non albino parent is not het for ultra and of course, the amel cannot be. The only way for you to know for sure (haha) is to raise up one of the hypo-looking ones and breed it to an albino that you know is not het for hypo A. I said "haha" cuz that is definitely not an acid test for proving or disproving your snake has the ultra mutation. It's just a fairly good indication. You see, if the amel you breed this baby to is het for hypo A, and if the snake you hope is ultramel is actually hypo A, you'll get the same visual results you'd get if you bred an ultramel to an albino. Approximately 50% amels and 50% hypo-looking animals. I think it would be fairly rare for the non-albino parent of your non-albino breeder to be an ultra gene carrier. For your non-albino to be het for ultra, the anery grandparent would need to be the sole carrier. If he was het for ultra, he would have sired ultramels when bred to the snow parent of your breeder. The more I read my typing, the more I'm convinced you've produced some killer hypo A corns. Keep us posted, should you take this to the next level.

Best wishes,

Don
South Mountain Reptiles

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• Hypo, ultra hypo or what? - reptilesmendoza, Fri Feb 8 10:19:58 2008
• RE: Hypo, ultra hypo or what? - pinky, Fri Feb 8 10:21:37 2008
• RE: Hypo, ultra hypo or what? - DonSoderberg, Fri Feb 8 18:49:44 2008
• RE: Hypo, ultra hypo or what? - reptilesmendoza, Mon Feb 11 19:22:40 2008
• Okay . . . - DonSoderberg, Mon Feb 11 19:46:04 2008
• RE: Okay . . . - reptilesmendoza, Tue Feb 12 05:47:02 2008
• Visual identification . . . - DonSoderberg, Tue Feb 12 08:30:26 2008