Many people get confused when using Het to describe an animal with a dominant trait. Problem is they think of het describing an animal that has one recessive gene that they can;t see the affect of. Het simply means the genes within a specific gene pair are not the same. Does not matter if the mutated gene is weaker (recessive) or stronger (dominant or co-dominant) then the normal gene.





so.........



in BCI,



Hypo is dominant

Albino and Anery are recessive



Snow is visual Albino and Anery (2-Albino and 2-Anery genes)

Sunglow is Hypo and Albino (1 or 2 Hypo and 2-Albino genes)

Ghost is Hypo and Anery (1 or 2 Hypo and 2-Anery genes)

Moonglow os Hypo, Albino and Anery (1 or 2 Hypo, 2-Albino and 2-Anery genes)



DH Snow is het Albino and het Anery (1-Albino and 1-Anery genes)



DH Sunglow is het Hypo and het Albino (visually a Hypo with 1-Hypo and 1-Anery genes)



DH Ghost is het Hypo and het Anery (visually a Hypo with 1-Hypo and 1-Anery genes)



TH Moonglow is het Hypo, Het Albino and het Anery (visually a hypo with 1-Hypo, 1-Albino and 1-Anery genes)



And yes, "super" is used to describe a Hypo (or other dominant morph) with two of the mutant genes. So you can see something like DH Ghost pos super. That would mean is known to have at least two morph genes, 1-Hypo and 1-Anery and could have 2-Hypo but can't tell without breeding it. That specific case would come from Ghost x DH Ghost (also either could be known Super but not both or all babies would be known Super Hypos)



Hope that helps....
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Thanks,





Dave Colling



www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com







0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)

0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)



LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):

36.51 BRB

29.42 BCI

And those are only the breeders



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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