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I'm familiar with boa genetics and how they work it's just when you get into these three boas (Snow, Ghost, and Sunglows) that my brain starts screaming for mercy and Advil. Plus a friend and I have two kind of different ideas (truthfully I don't think either has any idea - ) on these animals when bred to normals.

Let's start with the "Snows". I take an "Albino and an Anery" and I get "DH Snow or DH albino/anery". I breed 2 "Dh Snows" together and I should get at least 1 "Snow". I take that "Snow" and breed it to a "Normal". Do I get "100% Het Snows" or do I get "DH Snows which are DH albino/anery"? What if I breed the Snow to an albino? Do I get albinos that are het anery?

Now let's do the "Ghosts". I take a "Hypo/Salmon and an Anery" and I get "DH Ghost - Hypo/Salmon 100% Het Anery" and "Normals 100% Het Anery". I take the "Hypo/Salmon 100% Het Anery" and breed them together and I get all kinds of things. I take one of the "Ghost" and breed it to a "Normal". Do I get "half Ghost" and "half Normals" or "Hypos/Salmons Het Anery" and "Normals 100% Het Anery"? I know DH ghost can be breed to anerys and produce ghost but just to be simple I used 2 DH ghost in the example.

Now let's do the "Sunglows". Let's get to the point, when I take a "Sunglow" and breed it to a "Normal" do I get "half Sunglows" and half Normals" or "Hypos/Salmons Het Albino" and "Normals 100% Het Albino"?

If someone could help my friend and I solve this mystery in the universe it would save us a lot of arguing time, plus we would be able to argue about other mindless things. LOL

"Let's start with the "Snows". I take an "Albino and an Anery" and I get "DH Snow or DH albino/anery". I breed 2 "Dh Snows" together and I should get at least 1 "Snow". I take that "Snow" and breed it to a "Normal". Do I get "100% Het Snows" or do I get "DH Snows which are DH albino/anery"?"

DH Snow and 100% Het Snows are the same thing.

What if I breed the Snow to an albino? Do I get albinos that are het anery?

Yes all offspring would be albinos het for anery which are also called Albinos Het Snow.

I take one of the "Ghost" and breed it to a "Normal". Do I get "half Ghost" and "half Normals" or "Hypos/Salmons Het Anery" and "Normals 100% Het Anery"?

You would get half hypos het ghost(anery) and half normals het anery.

When I take a "Sunglow" and breed it to a "Normal" do I get "half Sunglows" and half Normals" or "Hypos/Salmons Het Albino" and "Normals 100% Het Albino"?

You would get half hypos het sunglow(albino) and half normals het albino.

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Jared Douglas

I forgot to mention about Supers. A Super Hypo can be produced when you breed a Hypo to a Hypo. This will produce one quarter Super Hypos and half hypos Hypos and one quarter normals. Picking out Supers can be tricky but if you breed a Super you get the following.

If you breed a super sunglow to a normal you will get all hypo het sunglows.
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Jared Douglas

I didn't see your response before I replied to your first.

Thanks

Thanks for the response Jared. I have one more question. So when I take a “Dom Ghost” and breed it to a “Norm” I’ll just get all “Hypo Het Anery”?

I didn't see your response before I replied to your first.

Thanks

You got that one. The dominant in a dominant ghost refers to the hypo trait. And dominant hypos can only be proven through breeding, though most dominant hypos will look very different from their co-dominant siblings.