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Has anyone produced a ghost BRB yet? I have a female anery and a male hypo and was thinking of trying to make double hets but I read that the anery gene is dominant. Any suggestions?

As far as i know, the Ghost BRB has not been made yet. But that there is at least 3 people with double het ghosts already produced. Any another producing double hets this year. We should see the first Ghosts within a few months from those original pairings i would imagine.

All the anerythristics lines out there at the moment, i believe have been proven recessive.

If you had a line of anerys that was dominant, it would not prevent ghosts being produced though, but would give you a better shot. Ie anery x hypo, giving you anery het hypos, to breed back to each other.

Im guessing that the anery that your planning on using, is the one that you have for sale on the classifieds. IMO though, it doesnt look like one. And if you were planning to sell double hets from a hypo x that anery female. I think it would be better to try and prove your line out first, to check that you actually working with a genetic trait. However yours does look like a darker animal, which could result in some very nice hypos down the line.

cheers
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Dave

15.24 brbs
4.8 crbs

Thanks for the response. I think if I was capable of producing double hets this year I'd hold them all back to try and produce the ghost. You're right I really don't know if the female I have is a true anery. It was sold to me as a possible one, what makes you think it isn't?

Trace,
...I just went over to the classifieds and had a look at your possible anery female. She looks like what about a quarter of the BRBs imported before 1995 looked like. There is an enormous amount of natural variation in these snakes. In the wild they are colored from plain dirty dark brown to bright bright red and orange and even some yellows. The crescent markings can range from nonexistent to white to red to orange and even neon gold-orange looking. We breeders have selective bred so much for pretty color and bright crescents on the sides that all the babies in our litters these days look like the very very best imports looked just 20 years ago. Around 1995 there were several people asking for all of the plain looking white crescent BRBs I produced. I sold several to them. I am sure they thought they were anerythristic. Not sure what became of their breedings but the fact that anery BRBs did not get produced in big numbers tells me plenty. I will qualify my opinion on your snake and this subject by stating that of all the people interested in Rainbow Boas I am the one who is the LEAST interested in morphs.
Jeff

I appreciate your comments. I just recently acquired a large collection of rainbows. I kept very few before that, more interested in Australian pythons. The guy I bought the collection from said that it was a possible anery, he had his doubts and I have mine. Thanks guys.