I just saw this today but I wanted to respond because I feel like lately there has been some confusion about this and we've been getting calls and questions about it. We have 3 hypos het albino from Damian. They are gorgeous hypos and our favorite hypos for sure. When combined with our double dose coral albino male, they make amazing sunglows. We have bred them to other albino males with average results, but for some reason the combination of the double dose coral albino to those particular hypos must be the ticket because the babies from that particular combination are always well above average.
However, I'm not sure what's going on here with the Panamanian Hypo thing. When we bought those three girls from Damian, my father picked them up personally. On different occasions actually, because at first he only got one. At that point, we saw the mother of the three that we have and we were told that she was a Salmon that was produced by (I don't want to involve any other names here) "The Salmon Breeder" and later acquired by Damian in a trade from a different big and very well known breeder. She was a very pretty Hypo, but clearly looked like a Salmon, not a Panamanian hypo. In addition, the 3 females that we have are no less than 8 feet long each and very thick...extremely inconsistent with being offspring that are 1/2 Panamanian. I think there is some confusion here because "The Salmon Breeder's" Salmon stock originated from Panamanian hypos but were then bred into the Colombians. So, if you trace back the Salmons, they all go back to Panamanian Hypos, however, I wouldn't consider them, or the mother of our hypos that we got from Damian to be Panamanian Hypos. Again, they are beautiful, but we were told that they were Salmon when we bought them, and when we saw the mother, she looked like a Salmon. Nothing like the Panamanian hypos that we see coming in lately. I just wanted to clear up any confusion because this seems to be a question we've been getting lately and I'm uncomfortable with misinformation being spread. Especially since our customers can expect that their sunglows or any babies from those litters will get HUGE!! lol Maybe the sunsets are different because of the hog influence, but the Hypos het albino that we have are monsters!
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Amanda Burke
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