>>I wonder - if a baby of one morph will pop out from normal looking parents, does it makes us sure that the parents are hets for this morphs? I would like to know some of your opinions on this.



yes, i think that's the logical conclusion.



it still looks hypo-esque to me.



and re: your expectations that it would be lighter, there could be any number of different hypo morphs for a given species...we're exploring right now the possibility there may be a new, second--and lighter--hypo honduran, for example, and doing some of the same breeding tests with what might be two different hypo morphs of pyros. so a hypo of a diff subspecies like the sinaloan could reasonably be lighter--or darker--than traditional hypo hondos, for example. it'll look like whatever the particular gene mutation on that subspecies produces as a result of its alteration of melanin.



another example is the "anerythristic" honduran and pyro: NEITHER is actually, literally an "an"erythristic (no erythrins) because both have obvious remnant pink on them...they're really "hypo"erythristic, with the erythrins reduced, not eliminated. but the two diff species are dramatically diff in appearance, with the degree of reduction much greater on the hondo than on the pyro.



terry

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