As I stated already once or twice ALL Honduran Milksnakes grow to an enormous size in Milksnake standards. I think the record length was posted on here once before last year of one over 7 feet. A 4' Honduran is NOT fully grown.

As for your definition problems:

Het is short for Heterozygous which means carrying a trait.

A specimens showing the trait is Homozygous.

There are:

Hypomelanistics

Hypoerytheristics (anery)

Tangerines

Tricoloreds

Amelanistic (albino)

Ghosts (both Anery and Amel)

Snows (both Amel and Anery)

Hybinos (Hypo and Amel)

All the above animals derived from original wild caught tri colored Hondurans. When an amel is bred to a normal the offspring are definite heterozygous for amel.

When Two possible hets are bred together the normal looking offspring are only possible hets. You get possible hets many other ways but this is the simplest.

Check out Terry Dunham's website. It is albino tricolors. There

is a link right above all the posts in the Sponsors portion of the page. He has a terrific genetics page you should read. Also he has some pretty pictures to look at. LOL

John Lassiter

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