A few years ago I purchased a very high contrast anery male and salmon hypo from Jeff Ronne. I bred them together and made hypos het for anery. Last year I bred one of the hypo het females from that litter to my snow boa and produced 2.2 hypos het for anery and albino and 1.2 dhets for snow with no anerys or ghosts produced. This year I bred a sister hypo het female to my adult male ghost. There are 8 possible dominant hypo hets for anery, 1 het for anery and no ghosts or anerys in the litter. I will say that the original male from Jeff looked more like a type 2 than a type 1 anery with no buckskin coloration and very high contrast with a long black tail.
Both my ghost male and the snow male have produced anerys in the past along with ghosts and snows respectively.
Obviously I may just not be getting any anerys by somehow pissing off the genetic odds gods. Alternatively the original male may not have been an anery but I find that very hard to believe and I believe it had produced for Jeff in the past. Another explanation which having looked at all of the animals I favor is that the anerys are not compatible making these hypos het for 2 kinds of anery.
I am thankfull , as always, to have produced another boa litter but I really am not sure what this one really means.
Bill Kirby
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What does this litter mean?
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Hey Bill,
First let me say congrats on another nice litter. Based on what you described i think your hunch is right... you have two different anery lines there. Do you not have the original anery male anymore? Or a male double het from the first breeding? Breeding one of these back to the two double het girls will let you know if you have a genetic anery. Breeding any of those animals to a type II will tell you if you have a type II or a new line... Type III. LOL
Any pics of the anery male?? You know I'm fond of anerys!
Oz
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