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Can you more experienced guys help me? How can you visually tell them apart? I have 2 males out of my triple hets. They both seem to be the same, purplish saddles and yellowish tint to them. I thought the info I had would help me tell them apart and I thought that I could. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Ii will post the photo bucket link to try to give some additional info. I am not that good on the computers so bear with me.

http://s662.photobucket.com/albums/uu341/boasandbeyond/Baby Boas/2010 Baby Boas/

Thanks,

Ed

Wow, those are tough.. I will look again more closely but you got me.. Take a look at the tails.. Compare them to the siblings really close.. Compare your normals to your hypos.. compare your anerys to your ghosts.. compare your albinos to your sunglows.. Then ask yourself, does this anery albino carry the hypo gene?
Sometimes, the snows and moonglows need to be bred to prove out.. I was at my buddies shop and he showed me 2 adult animals that were proven and asked me if I thought if they were snows or moonglows.. I said one was a snow and the other was a moonglow.. Well I was way wrong, the one I thought was a snow was a moonglow, and the one I thought was a moonglow was a snow.. So go figure.. I will take a closer look and give you my honest opinion.. Do you have any more pics of the 2 animals.. Maybe a close up of the tails. Thanks.

Thanks for the response. I will attempt to get more pics and post them. Unfortunately my wife just left for Ocala with the kids and the camera. At least I feel better now that I'm not the only the only one who has trouble telling them apart. I tried to look at the tails but the are hard to see. It is not as easy as the albinos vs the sunglows.

I can't tell from the pics. I was in the same situation o=ver the last couple of years with my DH x TH pairing. 20 total babies in 2 litters and four Snow/Moonglow. One key point I found to tell them apart was how clean the patterns were. It appears the two I had with speckling were Snows and the two without were Moonglows. Also the typical pinching of saddles in Hypos was apparent.

Beyond those two points it's tough as Hypo is mostly a color morph.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Thank you. I will attempt to check on the speckling. I have had some dirty hypos though. I wonder how hard this will be to tell.

Hard to say but I am leaning towards two snow boas. The first one pictured may be a moonglow but might not. I feel pretty good calling the other a snow but like the others said some just need to be bred.
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