>>Call me old fashioned but I'm not sure I understand the genetics behind all of this. Until recently I thought all hypomelanism was a recessive traight, but now I am seeing ads for possible dominants?!?!?!? "Salmons" are said to be co-donminant and the offspring of a salmon x salmon are super salmons which I see labeled as possibly dominant. I think the idea of two co-dominant traits working out in the punnet square like a heterozygous trait creating homozygous dominant individuals is a load of crap. I have bred arabesques to arabesques and still gotten 50-50 ratios, give or take a few.
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>>Oh, and if anyone has a co-dominant hypo ad female or knows someone who does let me know. Hypo arabesques?? sounds yummy

Do you have pictures of the ArabXArab litter, that would be great to see.. As far as the genetic hypomelanistic strain in Colombian boas, they ALL work in a co dominant nature... You really need to understand, the famous words of my friend Davey Giltner... MOTHER NATURE DOESN'T USE A PUNNET SQUARE!!!! Which is definitely displayed in the litter my female just dropped... Co dom male hypo X Normal female = 43 babies and only TEN hypos.. That's a 1/4 of the litter... And on the other hand, you could possibly end up with 3/4 hypos, or whichever trait you're breeding... The punnet square is only a guideline to help forecast the litter you're trying to produce.. It's not a natural LAW..
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Joe Lydon
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• Hypo/Salmon? - gentlemantw0, Fri Apr 15 23:40:05 2005
• RE: Hypo/Salmon? - Gotboids18, Fri Apr 15 23:48:20 2005
• RE: Hypo/Salmon? - VolcomHerp, Sat Apr 16 08:22:37 2005
• The trait doesn't fit... - Rainshadow, Sat Apr 16 08:48:52 2005
• Well said (more) - Paul Hollander, Sat Apr 16 15:32:12 2005
• Hi Paul... - Rainshadow, Sat Apr 16 18:23:00 2005
• RE: Hypo/Salmon? - callmedaddie, Sat Apr 16 13:17:04 2005
• Also...... - callmedaddie, Sat Apr 16 13:26:13 2005
• Homzygous Hypo and Arabesques.... - Sojourn, Sun Apr 17 09:49:19 2005
• Damn coffee...... - Sojourn, Sun Apr 17 09:51:33 2005