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I'm getting a really sweet super hypo but I'm new to the boa morphs. If I breed her to a normal I know that the offspring will be normal and hypos but will any be super hypos? How can you tell a super from a regular hypo?
Thanks very much.

It is really difficult to tell the difference between a hypo and a super hypo, because they can look similar. A super hypo is homogenous for hypo, meaning two hypo genes (one from each parent). They do tend to have less black pigment on the tails and their saddles more narrow. Because it is difficult to tell whether a hypo is super or just hypo, many breeders sell them as "possible supers". If it is in fact a super hypo then you can breed it to any normal and you will get all hypo babies. But if it is a regular hypo then half of the offspring will be hypos and half of the babies will be normals. The only real way to tell whether it is a super hypo is if the parents are also supers or if you prove them out by breeding them.

A Hypo or Salmon when bred to a normal wild type Boa will produce approximately half(50%) baby Boas exhibiting the Hypo trait
and half(50%) of the litter of babies will exhibit the normal trait
So the regular Hypo would be a Boa with 1 Hypo gene and 1 normal or wild type gene.
Making this form of Hypo Boa Heterozygous form - or regular hypo if you will.
The Super Hypo carries 2 of the Hypo genes ,making this the Homozygous form of Hypo.
This allows it to pass on one of these Hypo genes to each of its babies.So it will produce a litter of all Hypo babies.
These babies will each carry only 1 Hypo gene and 1 normal gene.
Making all Heterozygous Hypo boas
If you breed The Super Hypo(Homozygous form) to a regular Hypo(Heterozygous form) out of every 2 babies
1 will be Super Hypo(Homozygous form)and 1 baby will be regular Hypo(Heterozygous form)
. . . . Lar M
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