Does anyone know if it possible to tell if a snow hatchling also is hypo? One of my clutches this year with both parents het for hypo had a high percentage of snows and I was thinking about keeping a couple for possible test crosses if there was any way to tell. Any thoughts?
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Dave Wise
Marion, NY
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Hypo Snows?
dlwise
Sep 08, 2010 10:03 PM
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shaky
Sep 09, 2010 06:48 AM
there's no way to be sure without breeding, though your chances are strong with those parents.
>>Does anyone know if it possible to tell if a snow hatchling also is hypo? One of my clutches this year with both parents het for hypo had a high percentage of snows and I was thinking about keeping a couple for possible test crosses if there was any way to tell. Any thoughts?
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>>Dave Wise
>>Marion, NY
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Jack Jeansonne
PHLdyPayne
Sep 09, 2010 05:39 PM
From what I understand, 'hypos' are snakes with very reduced dark pigment (melamine). Since snow corns are double recessives, amel and anery...there is no dark pigment (due to being amel (no dark pigment), so basically only way to tell if they are hypo is to breed them.
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PHLdyPayne
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DMong
Sep 10, 2010 05:11 PM
"From what I understand, 'hypos' are snakes with very reduced dark pigment (melamine)."
Melamine is sheet/shelving building material, but we know what you meant(melanin)..LOL!
Melamine is just a tad different than black pigmentation. 
~Doug
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PHLdyPayne
Sep 11, 2010 05:41 AM
LOL definitely meant melanin....but you have to admit melamine and melanin...very similar in spelling...I will have to remember 'shelving is 'mine' and dark pigment is 'NIN'....yeah, that should stick better.
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PHLdyPayne
Forum Princess
DMong
Sep 11, 2010 04:15 PM
Yeah, that was a good giggle!
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"
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a153fish
Sep 11, 2010 12:45 PM
You can probably find it in black if you searched hard enough.
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J Sierra
DMong
Sep 11, 2010 04:12 PM
....LOL!!, yeah, then it would be my melanin(melanistic)melamine!! 
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"
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