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Got a better picture after they shed. I literally bought this pair right out of the egg. This is the female. Randy W.

This is the male.

nice hondurans ,i just got my first pair of tangerines imostlyave pythons (burms)so i dont know alot about the genetics of hondurans . so could u tell me what a hypo is because i see alot of different hypo pictures is it a lack of one of the colors or something. and if u breed 2 snakes that are het for hypo will u get any hypo babies.well tell me if my baby honduran is a nice looking one or what is wrong with it if anything the guy said it was a tangerine it looks like one to me but if its not tell me .i'm just starting with them so i have alot to learn well thanks for your time

Yours is a tangerine honduran and it is a nice looking one to.
A hypo has reduced black. Hypo stands for hypomelanism which is a recessive trait. You will notice that the hypos look kind of like a tangerine that has been bleached with clorox.
A het to het for hypo tangerine breeding will on average produce a clutch with 25% hypos, 50% het for hypos and 25% regular tangerine babies. The babies that hatch out of a clutch from het to het for hypo parents that are not hypos and look like regular tangerine hondurans are considered 66% possible het for hypo tangerine hondurans. I had 2 of these type het to het clutches to hatch out this year. One of them had 9 eggs and I got 4 hypos out of 9 which was lucky. The other clutch was 11 eggs and I only got 1 hypo out of 11. That was hard to believe but out of both clutches I got 25% hypos which is just what you are supposed to average. Hope this helps. Randy Whittington

thanks alot for your help do u have a web site or sell any of your hondurans well thanks

Check your e-mail. Randy

Nice snakes randy,
I also got a couple out of the egg at daytona from bruce skipper.I think it was the same clutch you refer to.
I got a white one and a tangerine one both tri-colored hypos.

shannon

Thanks Shannon. It was the same clutch. I was actually at his table getting mine when you walked by and talked breifly to him about the ones you wanted. I would have spoke but did'nt know who you were until Bruce told me.
I was glad he had those hatching because they were from parents that were both tricolors. He had more tricolor hypos that were awesome but had both a tangerine and a tricolor parent.
Later, Randy W.

Man,
I wish you would have said something.I always like to put faces with names?Anyways,I will post a pic of one that I got from him that is bright orange and is a pinner to boot.
I just got another one from marc bailey that is awesome as well.Its a white one that will go good with the one that he produced last year.
I will post a pic of the yearling.She was solid white as a hatchling and now she has tons of red and purple tipping in the white bands and it will be neat to see if the tangerine/orange one stayes better looking as it grows??????

shannon