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How do you tell the difference between the two? Most of the adds I see say possible Super Salmon. Is it only possible to tell by breeding the Salmon in question to a normal to see if you get all Salmons

Thats the only possitive way to tell seeing that in a hypo to hypo breeding 50% are hypos 25% are supers and 25% are normals. The supers tend to look better that the normal hypos with less black, look at their tails.

So there isn't like a tell tale sign that a salmon is a super salmon. The only reason I am asking is because I am picking up a potential dominant hypo male and I was wondering if there was a way of figuring it out, before I pair it up.

NO, the best thing I can tell you is look at their tail the cleaner the better (less black).

Well I got the snake the other day and I am trying to post a picture but I am not sure how to make the image into a url

to load them into the KS photo gallery. Sometimes you have to make them smaller first but once they are in there then its easy to post them.

>>NO, the best thing I can tell you is look at their tail the cleaner the better (less black).
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Not always true. Although Homozygous Salmons (Supers) are usually cleaner, I have seen Heterozygous Salmons even cleaner than proven Homozygous. In fact, I own a very clean one.

Breeding is the only way to prove a Salmon is Homozygous or Heterozygous. Anything else is speculation IMO.
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