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This male in the picture is an albino possible hybino and possible het anery that I got from Terry Dunham late in 2005. I tried mating him last year with my female ghost breeding that is already a proven producer but she laid slugs last year after mating with this male albino possible hybino. Perhaps he was way too young at that time (19 months) to breed. This year, he is now bigger and 2.67 years old.

The ghost is ovulating for sure, since I felt some pea size bumps as she crawls on my fingers. Question for you guys then would be: if you were me, would a ghost female be enough to prove that he is a hybino if all offsprings produced are visually hypos? And then if a ghost is produced, then it also proves him out as definite het for anery. I could use another hypo female breeder but was hoping to use the hypo female breeder for another project...and that would only prove out the hybino part and not the het anery part.

Below are the happy couple.

Opinions?

Ray
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RAY - "Laziness is nothing more than a habit of resting before getting tired!"

Hi Ray,

We had a very similar pairing last year and out of 6 eggs the first 4 to hatch were Hypos. Then the two Triple Hets hatched and we were a little disappointed, but we did get some very nice Hypos that are Double Hets. He also produced a Snow when bred to a Snow. So, the Het Anerythristic proved out, but not with the Ghost. I think if your boy produces a large clutch and they are all Hypos then there is pretty good chance of him being Hybino. I still think I would feel better if he produced more than one clutch of all Hypos before I called him a Hybino. Good luck!
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Thanks!

Joe Exposito
Thoroughbred Exotics, LLC
www.thoroughbredexotics.com

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your input. I decided to mate the male with another female and this time a hypo. I don't know if you will remember back in 2004 when Kevin Hanley produced what he called an "oddball" patternless hypo because it was so unexpected? That oddball hypo was purchased by Adam Willich...I actually got a clutchmate of that oddball hypo and she finally have reached breeding size this season. Pic below... so it will be interesting to see what happens if she successfully breeds and further tests the possible hybino male.

Later,,

Ray
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RAY - "Laziness is nothing more than a habit of resting before getting tired!"