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I know the eye marking theory on albinos but has anyone used this on blood boas or caramel or leopards does the same markers work on poss hets.This is a poss het for blood I got from tom
Mike

All my het Kahl babies have bright upper eyes.
All my het Sharp babies have bright upper eyes. Actually more bright than the Kahls.
All my het Caramel babies have bright upper eyes.

I don't see any reason why a het Blood would have the bright eyes since they are a completely different animal not lacking any black but who knows?
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1.1 albino
0.1 het albino

I have not found any specific "marker" for those guys.
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I have produced some possible DH snow and possible Triple het litters and I feel pretty confident the ones that are het albino by looking at the top half of the eye, AND het anery can be picked out by looking at the lower half of the eye.

Last season I first noticed it on my possible triple het litter from a DH snow female bred to a male Triple Het MoonGlow, all the normals and hypo babies were 66% het anery and albino but i noticed immediately a difference in the eyes.

I then had a litter from a Ghost male bred to a Coral Albino female, this litter really wacked me over the head so to speak with the idea that there was something to be said about the eye color on hets, at that time, Jeff Ronne (the BOAPHILE) made public his theory on how to pick the hets out on possible het for albino litters.

This season I had a male albino 100% het snow breed my nicest pastel female in order to make pastels 100% het albino that were also 50% het for anery. I feel it is quite easy to see the ones that are het anery in the litter by looking at the eyes. I will take some pictures of them and see if you guys come up with the same conclusions I did.

Please post this info.!!!

I just got a litter from a Kahl albino to a hypo het anery. I was planning on keeping all the girls, BUT if there is a way to spot the triple hets from the het sunglows, I would love to hear it. My logic is since the the het anerys only have one gene for red, the less colorful babies would be the hets.....but I didn't want to just hold back these and end up with a bunch of less colorful adults. I will still probably keep all the girls with accurate photographs and try to determine a marker when I prove them out in a few years...

has anyone tried this approach ???

thanks, bryan hummel
www.rainbowboas.com

Thanks Jeff
I'm glad to hear the marker works on caramel as well.I hope it works on bloods too.
Thanks for your info.
Mike

have any poss het leopards even been produced? a het leopard, in pure 100% sonoran form is very distinctive overall, wacky pattern/colors....my dbl het albino leopards have the colombian influence more so than others produced as I used a male leopard with a kahl female, the other breedings I know of used a kahl male/sunglow with leo female, thus the babies look like leo hets should. I have only one baby that has the classic leopard het look, the rest of the double hets look like normal het albinos with faint faint leopard influence.
As for bloods, if PURE 100% with no colombian influence, most of all the 100% hets and bloods I have seen have had striped tails....seems the stripes on the tail came from Ron St. pierre stock... do not know if the same when the colombian influences them???

Very interesting.Thanks I never noticed stripe.
Mike

I just thought of a question.Did the striped tail trait come from the original male?Or did it come from a normal with a striped male I know he was out on breeding loan to a few people.I contacted ron when he got him back a few years ago when he posted him for sale.I think he told me there were 2 bloods his wife brought in I wonder if both had trait or if it was picked up by a original female mormal when they tried to prove out.I only ask because some of my 100% hets don't have the stripe.And I don"t think they have columbian in them.
Just wondering if you remember the original bloods that were imported had the stripe.Didn't they bring in arabesgue and motley too ?
Mike