Me and Dan, are just happy to have some really cool Cal Kings! If that strange one sheds all of that patterning off, it will still be a cool cal King just the same. We are just having fun with it. Yet we remain open-minded as to the possibilities that new wild collected potential morphs present.



I still consider the father to be hypo as judged against his own peers. We have caught many in the exact same area, and they are not brown, so in regard to the others we have found there, he is hypomelanistic. Now, is it due to a specific genetic trait? Only time will tell. We will have to prove or disprove it out through breeding to really know for sure. But It really does not matter to me as I do not think that everything has to be genetic to be a hypo.



As I have mentioned before, the other individuals in a given population that you are comparing any specimen to play just as large a role in determining if that specific specimen is hypo as the actual specimen.
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James Wilson

Pacific Coast Herpetological

www.pacificcoastherpetological.com

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