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

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