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What is a moonglow and what is a sunglow?
Here is what I think it is.. correct me if I am wrong PLEASE!!

Sunglow = Albino (ressesive) hypo (co-dom)?

Moonglow = Albino (ressesive) hypo (co-dom) ghost (res?) or anery (ress?)???

Sorry I dont really keep up with the boa stuff too much but i think its time to start!

Is a salmon the same as a hypo? is is dom or co-dom?
Is a ghost the smae and a anery? are they ress or co-dom?

Thanks in advance to all the Boa keepers! post pic's if you have comparison shots also!! thanks!

Let's see....
Sunglow = hypo albino
Moonglow = hypo albino anery
Ghost = hypo anery
And i pretty sure salmon is the same as hypo.

Thanks.. So does that meen a moonglow is a hypo snow? aka moonglow?

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Is a salmon the same as a hypo? is is dom or co-dom?
Is a ghost the smae and a anery? are they ress or co-dom?

Salmon is pretty much the same as hypo. Although animals coming from the orignal salmon lines are usually cleaner and brighter then typical hypos. However, these days the terms are used pretty interchangeably so for the most part .. yes salmon is the same as hypo. Both traits are Co-Dom.

Ghost is a hypo/anery. As stated above the hypo gene is co-dom, although anery is recessive.

All salmons are hypos, but not all hypos are salmons. Orangetail is a hypo that may or may not be salmon. Pastel is a line selected to be light colored. There are some other hypos that are not salmons. But it's pretty common to say hypo when meaning salmon.

The salmon gene is often called a codominant mutant gene, but in my opinion it's better to call salmon a dominant mutant gene.

Ideally, the salmon gene would be a codominant mutant gene if everyone could separate snakes with one salmon gene from snakes with two salmon genes all of the time. The salmon gene would be a dominant mutant gene if nobody could separate snakes with one salmon gene from snakes with two salmon genes.

Posters on this forum say the two types can be separated sometimes. There is enough overlap in appearance that the two types often cannot be distinguished. That puts salmon in the gray area between the two ideal definitions. (Hey, Mother Nature can be sloppy.) When that happens, I opt for calling it a dominant mutant gene.

Paul Hollander

Thanks guys!! Tinley park here I come!!

are triple het moonglow and dbl het sunglows just hypos that are dbl het snow and hypo het albino? how does the ghost come into play? that is just a hypo anery right?

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