Breeding a Homozygous Hypomelanistic Boa to a non Hypo yields 100% Hypos in the heterozygous form. That is the offspring have one allele. Those with one allele are het for the trait and when bred to a non hypo half are The heterozygous form of hypomelanism.

Think of it this way, if you breed a het albino to a normal half the babies are hets and half not, thus 50% poss hets. In the Hypo's case we simply know which are hets and which are not.

Also just for clearification. Hypomelanism is not recessive, Heterozygous animals are any animal that carries only one allele for a given trait as opposed to a matching pair, the Non-Supers.

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