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I know anerythrism is understood in the world of boa morphs to be a recessive trait. I would like to know whether or not everyone that has produced litters of anery, and especially HETS for anerys agrees to this.

Have the HETS you have produced in the past had a slightly different color scheme(a bit less red, especially neonates) than most typical wild types or normals.

Here is a pic of a hypo 50% het ghost that I produced in February. He has a phenominal reduction of red which has maintained through three sheds so far....

Another little tidbit.... About half of the litter, hypos and normals, have a very obvious reduction of red compared to their siblings. When they were first born I was sure I had anerys and ghosts. This ended up not being the case, but it is five months down the line and they are still maintaining their reduction of red. Now, this may be an absolute fluke as far as genetics go. I definitely intend on proving out whatever is going on with them before making any claims to it one way or the other.

This may be someting that is very common in anerythristic litters. I don't know. This was my first litter ever. And this is ultimately my reason for asking.

My one thought if this is a common trait among 0 percent hets for anery, then would not this make it a co-dominant trait? As I undestand the co-dominate trait, an animal that is heterzygous for the trait expresses the trait incompletely(in this case reduction of red), while the homozygous form expresses it completely(no red period).

For everyone who read all that Thanks for you time! All opinions are welcome!.... Even if you have not produced any anerys.

Thanks in advance for all your thoughts!!!

Jesse Van Atta
Forever Boas
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"Continuing to cling to the patterns you know, inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know." - Eric Allenbaugh

You know, I have noticed personally (it could be that I was looking for some sort of indicator though) That most of the het anerythristics, and most of the het albinos I have looked at have a tendency to carry a yellowish hue to them, and their tails do appear to be much drabber then non hets.. (this could also be due to ugly normals being incorporated into the morph traits, and not as much selective breeding being practiced early on in the production.)

Good luck with that group of poss dh ghosts, they are some of the best I have seen..

Later
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Randall L Turner Jr.
www.aircapitalconstrictors.com
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I've noticed that my het anery. babies are lighter and almost appear to be anery. too. I use an old male produced by Glen Carlzen and nice light, old females. Take care. John Meltzer