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OK, now, sunglows are both hypo/salmon and albino. Now, I've been seeing many snakes being advertised as double het sunglows, but since the salmon/hypo trait is codominant then technically aren't these snakes salmons that are heterozygous for albino? so why are they being advertised as DH sunglows, when salmon het albino would make more sense and cause less confusion?

LOL! I've seen this arguement played out in real life. If you break it down that the hypo/salmon is NOT a super(homozygous salmon) then technically wouldn't it be a Heterozygous salmon/hypo? And if your getting technical in the conversation, wouldn't you call the other animals amelanistic rather than albino? It's not all that confusing because it seems to be the common description given to animals that are both salmons/hypos and het for albino...But IMO it's great to listen to people try to "one up" each other during conversation, especially at shows. As far as confusing people, LOL, you can spell everything out for some people and they will still walk away confused. I would be willing to bet money that there are people out there with morphs that couldn't really tell you what was going to happen when they breed them to another animal even though they just dumped thousands on the animal itself. Actually, not long ago, I found myself explaining to someone that their GHOST boa was anerythristic as well as hypo all wrapped up in one animal, and then trying to subsequently explain what that would mean come breeding time. Oh well, good topic for arguement, and I'm surprised this didn't get some people all excited-LOL Take care!