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hi i was reading a post below and it got me interested. i just bought an albino boa male and i have been thinking of getting a female or two for him...as i am brand new to breeding boas im not great with genetics and the % and crosses...if anyone can point me to a website or book or if you have any info that would be great...i think its albino het anrey makes snow and albino het hypo? makes sunglow...any help would be great thanks..

Snow is the combintation of the Anery and Albino genes! A snow is an animal that displays both Albino and Anery in the Homozygous condition. Both genes are reccesive. In the case of snow both parents have two have at least one set of genes for each mutation to have any chance of producing a snow if you have and albino het snow it is displaying the albino gene in the homozygous state and the anery gene in the heterozyous state.

To produce a sunglow each parents has to have at least one gene for albino and only one parent has to have the hypo gene because it is dominant.

The best thing to do is do a Google search for Mendelian genetics, it names after a Gregor Mendel who gene inheritance through studies of pea plants! Check out the link!

Al Brown/Brown's Boas
Link

Just to add to that. I don't think a boa could ever be het hypo in other words het for "Salmon". Hypo is a co-doninant gene so you will either have all babies hypo and some super hypo's if both parents carry the hypo gene and if only one parent carrys the hypo gene then half the babies will be hypo. Unless that one parent is super hypo then all the babies should be hypo becuase the super form is dominant.

A Het Hypo is any hypo Boa that is not in the Super form
This was explained very nicely the other day by Dave Colling

Here is the Topic

lessons in genitics needed

Actual post mde by Dave explaining Heterozygous Hypo means

Clarifying several points......

Hope that helps

. . . Lar M
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Boas By Klevitz
Boas By Klevitz

Also if your Abino you have now is not het for anery (snow) then it will be impossible to get snow boas. If this is the case then I would go with Sunglows, so you will need to get a salmon het albino or even better a super salmon het albino. I would stay away from breeding an albino to an albino though. So breeding your albino to a sunglow would give you 50%sunglows and 50%albino, but you are risking to produce some kinked spined boas and one eyed or no eyed boas.