Very cool Lyn!, glad you took the plunge back into some milks.

Well, Rob Haneisen is a well-known milksnake breeder, and he does post here now and then as well. He is getting out of it to focus on some other things in his family life, at least for the time being.

I don't really understand about the amel being labeled as a "tangerine hypo", but it could have been mislabeled and meant to have said "tangerine, het hypo". And of course there are double homozygous animals expressing both the amel and hypo gene at the same time, but as you said, the hypo gene is totally "masked" by the amelanistic gene. These of course are referred to as "hybinos". Now some hybinos can have very different looks, and you simply CANNOT distinguish a hybino from an albino, regardless of what anybody else claims, because they have, but it hold no whater whatsoever. To "KNOW" with certainty they are indeed hybinos, you have to know the precise genetic background of each parent. One can then only prove any offspring to be hybinos by certain clutch outcomes, it's just as simple as that.

Here is a sweet hatchling pic from last year of a definite PROVEN hybino I have from Rusty Green that is also 100% het anery. Hybinos can have many different phenotypes just like amels can.

Have fun with your new acquisitions!..


~Doug


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