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sunglow VS albino

marcp Aug 04, 2010 08:46 PM

I crossed my arabesque albino with a hypo het albino (DHSG) and have 5 "albinos". Can anyone let me know if there is a good way to tell if one is an albino or sunglow morph? I just read the last post but do not see the difference in the eyes. I am sure I have a mix of albino, albino arabesque, sunglow and sunglow arabesque. They all look different.

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asnakesview Aug 04, 2010 10:52 PM

>>I crossed my arabesque albino with a hypo het albino (DHSG) and have 5 "albinos". Can anyone let me know if there is a good way to tell if one is an albino or sunglow morph? I just read the last post but do not see the difference in the eyes. I am sure I have a mix of albino, albino arabesque, sunglow and sunglow arabesque. They all look different.

A good way to tell is the tails. The albinos have little pink circles around the tail markings while the sunglows don't. Hope this helps.
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LarM Aug 05, 2010 01:38 AM

With the Leopards it appears to be challenging.

With normal Sunglows and Arab Sunglows its quite uncomplicated.

Post some quality pictures of each Boa and I can identify what
you have as can many others on this forum.

The key is in the tail, with Albino Boas on the tail blotches what would
normally be a black border around those tail blotches on a normal non Albino

On an Albino that border is completely a white clear-ish type color.

On the Sunglows the tail Blotch color bleeds into those borders
or covers them entirely.

Often the further you go down towards the tip of the tail on a
Sunglow the more white clear-ish border will start to show.

Hope that makes sense

post some good clear high resolution pictures of each entire Boa
and we'll figure it out !

. . . Lar M
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marcp Aug 05, 2010 08:44 AM

Thanks. I will get some pics posted in the next few days.

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