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Here are some pics of a litter I had back in December....
A little info on this...
The Mom is from an unknown bloodline...her first litter produced 3 different animals ...normals ....hypos...and ...something I have no idea what they are....
I must say that I notice the same drastic difference in the hypos as well so it seems to be a type of co-dom trait that is being passed on to the litters.
I bred her the second time using a different male hypo (but he is 66% het albino)....but the same held true as for the noticeable differences in the litter. You can see in the pics a hypo a normal and a pink baby that seems to glow. If anyone has any info on the possible causes for this please post or e-mail me...I plan on breeding one of last years males back to the mom this fall so hopfully I will know what's going on with that litter. Thanks Andy Federico

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Stop showing off. No one likes a show off.
Fantastic looking neonates.
Andy if you have time drop me a line.
Joel Pretz

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Excellent shot!

I think those are pastels... and I think those pics show the differences TOO well... lol

I think breeding two of those together should give you babies that look like them on the low end, and look like hypos on the high end.

Thanks for posting!

Bci Joe
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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

not to use hypo's. The hypo gene messes with everything. Give it a shot and let us know how that goes.....
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Thank you, Andy
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that some of the babies from each litter take a majority of the traits that define their color from their mother.
Since half of the baby's genes are from each parent, and it can be any half, some might get the dose from mom.
I would think this has great potential for selective breeding, as it appears in the F1, even if it is not reliably reproduceable (genetic) when bred to other (unrelated) boas.

Looks to me like the type of variation you would get in an F1 breeding.
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