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I have a female albino BCI that was in a litter that included sunglows. So I'm assuming she is some kind of Het for Sunglow.

I have a friend who is wanting to get rid of a couple Anery's 100% het for albino. If I bred one of these to my albino next year what am I looking at getting. I know there'd be some Albinos but how close to snows am I?
Thanks for any help. I'm sure you guys are quite sick of these types of questions.

Nate

>>I have a female albino BCI that was in a litter that included sunglows. So I'm assuming she is some kind of Het for Sunglow.

Actually, she is not. Hypo/Salmon is not recessive but rather a dominant trait which means that if the boa does not express the trait, it does not carry it. A het sunglow is a hypo boa that is het for albino (phenotype is hypo and carries the albino gene but does not express it)

>>I have a friend who is wanting to get rid of a couple Anery's 100% het for albino. If I bred one of these to my albino next year what am I looking at getting. I know there'd be some Albinos but how close to snows am I?

Assuming your albino girl does not carry the recessive anery trait, you would get:
Albinos het anery
Normals het anery and het albino (also called double het snows)

The only way to get snows would be if you albino carries the anery trait or breeding that anery het snow to either a double het snow or an albino het snow... or to a snow.

Good link below the pic, also this one (cut and paste):
www.boaddiction.com/showthread.php?t=129

Boa Genetics Primer

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A sunglow is a hypo albino. since hypo is dominant/co-dom depending on who you ask there is no possibility that the gene is present if your boa isnt a sunglow. breeding an anery het albino to her would make half albinos het snow and half normals double het for snow. those offspring bred together or back to the anery het snow would produce snows. big wait. Albino and anery are recessive and to produce a snow both of the parents would have to be either het or homozygous for both genes.

Thanks for the quick reply. My friend has a total of 5 boas all het for albino. 3 female normal het for albinos 1 female anery het for albino and 1 male anery het for albino. Even though I'm 2 generations away from snows at least I have the possibility of creating quite a few albinos. I can live with that. Thanks for the input guys I'm a newb when it comes to morphs and such.