Nice to see some new people posting....

As for Salmons and Hypos......

Look at it like this...

Rich Ihle & Jeff Gee...had the first hypos....Rich Ihle called them Salmon Boas, and Jeff Gee called them Orange tails.

They are basically a hypo-melanistic animal...which simply means a reduction of black pigment. This is a Co-dom or Dominant genetic strain of boas...

With Hog Island boas, they are the actual wild type or normal state of the animal, that is why hogs bred with normals cause a cross type animal.

On the other hand if you breed a Hypo or Salmon animal to a normal(wild type) you get approx. half a litter of Hypos or Salmons(depends what you wish to call them).

The other half the litter are just normals....of course I believe mutations can happen, but for the most part they are just normal looking and genetically normal boas.


Hope this helps, Andy Federico

AJF Reptiles

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• COLUMBIAN SALMON"S - VolcomHerp, Wed Oct 12 21:47:24 2005
• Question? - wshihdapinstripe, Wed Oct 12 23:10:16 2005
• NB - "Colombians" - herpconsultants2, Thu Oct 13 03:55:36 2005
• That's part of the sarcasm...... - wshihdapinstripe, Thu Oct 13 09:38:46 2005
• RE: That's part of the sarcasm...... - ajfreptiles, Thu Oct 13 10:34:51 2005
• RE: That's part of the sarcasm...... - beastie, Thu Oct 13 12:16:25 2005
• RE: BC................ - ajfreptiles, Thu Oct 13 12:51:51 2005
• RE: BC................ - LauraV, Thu Oct 13 13:03:32 2005
• RE: BC................ - PanamaRed, Thu Oct 13 13:57:44 2005
• Ahh... - LauraV, Thu Oct 13 14:12:07 2005
• All of the adults I have seen are 4.5-5.5ft- - PanamaRed, Thu Oct 13 15:20:32 2005
• That's why I prefer - LauraV, Thu Oct 13 15:36:44 2005
• What panamanian hypo? - topnotchboas, Thu Oct 13 17:44:35 2005
• RE: What panamanian hypo? - vcaruso15, Thu Oct 13 18:00:30 2005
• Thanks so much for the info. I didnt know that. np - topnotchboas, Thu Oct 13 22:40:36 2005
• About our hypos.... - Amanda_Burke, Sat Oct 15 16:55:02 2005
• Perhaps... - LauraV, Thu Oct 13 12:57:31 2005
• Thank you ...I completely agree - LauraV, Thu Oct 13 12:47:13 2005
• Typo - not sarcasm! - herpconsultants2, Thu Oct 13 11:50:10 2005
• "True Sarcasm"... - Rainshadow, Thu Oct 13 11:51:02 2005
• Sure you could produce a Sunset from a $500 pair of boas, but... - vcaruso15, Thu Oct 13 15:44:59 2005
• RE: COLUMBIAN SALMON"S - VolcomHerp, Thu Oct 13 09:57:25 2005
• RE: COLUMBIAN SALMON"S - matt_fl, Thu Oct 13 17:33:43 2005
• RE: Some Clarity................ - ajfreptiles, Thu Oct 13 18:19:47 2005