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Hi, some weeks ago my female salmon boa gave a birth.
The female and the male were born to the same parents: their mother was salmon 50% het. Anery'.
I thought it is a ghost, but ther is some redpink pigment near the tail.

Here is a photo of the new little boa, what do you think it is?

(mother: salmon possible het.Anery', father: normal possible het.Anery').

One more

Thank's!

* The guy is after first skin.

*I'm really sorry about my bad English

I don't know what your Salmon stock looks like but not all hypos are super red- for sure looks like a hypomelinistic. Not a ghost however. But I would be willing to bet that it is het for anerythyrism. Not that making a guess like that should a breeding project be built around but I've seen anery hets that seem to express, at least partially, a reduction of red or perhaps just a weird kind of dullness to the overall coloration. Since the parents were both possible anery hets, the chances are better that one of them would at least be a het and pass on that recessive gene but the chances are not as good that they(parents) are both anery hets. Logicly, there would have been a homozygous expression of anerythyrism in the litter had both parents been hets but even that depends on some luck(25% chance) in this example. In summary, its a hypo(salmon) possible het for anerythyrism(aka, possible double het ghost).

Good Luck-
Matt Schubarth