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here's a pic showing two different albinos hatched from a recent clutch from my hybino project. It's easy to speculate that the pale specimen on the left must be a hybino, and the one on the right a tangerine albino that's not hybino (not also hypo). But it'll take test breedings in a couple years before we know for sure.

Two related pairings next year:
1) a trio of hypos het/albino: the albino babies from those clutches will also be hypos, thus definite know-'em-when-you-see-'em hybinos.
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2) a pale male from 2002 that'll be test bred x one or more hypos: if that produces a LOT of babies, and ALL are hypos, that's strong evidence the male IS a hybino (logic: if he's NOT hypo, but merely het, then half the babies would be hypos and half not. How many hypo babies--without a normal looking sibling--would it take to convince you the male IS hybino? (anybody here good with stats?!)

peace
terry

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then it does have a different look than normal tang.albinos, I think its neat looking like that. I wish my trio of hypo het-albinos were old enough to breed-the male i think is gonna be ready next year, but my 2 females are just this years from terry. But anyways, Terry, thats a great pic, I hope thats what all hybinos look like, I want an albino that pale, that thing is cool looking.
jeff teel

Lets see if I can remember my stats class!!

This is for breeding the albino, possible hybino to a hypo. Well if you produce a clutch that is all hypos, we want to know what the chances are that it was just odds and he actually still just a het for hypo.

in a 4 egg clutch that were all hypos there would stil be a 6.25% chance that he is still just a het (.5 x .5 x .5 x .5=.0625). Since each individual would have a 50% chance of being hypo (if the father is just het). So there is a 93.75% (100%-6.25%=93.75%) chance he is indeed a hybino.

Of course the larger number of hypos produced without a nonhypo, the better your chance get.
5 hypos - 96.875%
6 hypos - 98.4375%
10 hypos - 99.9023%

I lurk here alot and as always your hondos are awesome. Good luck proving him out. Dave

i'll post that on the snakeroom wall to remind me what i'm aspiring to for adequate proof next year. That 99.9% result looks pretty conclusive to me.

thanks, dave.

terry

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It will interesting to see how it develops over time, there seems to be as much variation in possible Hybino as we are seeing with Snow's...

It would be nice to see comparison pics of all your holdback possy Hybinos as they mature...

Congrats Terry and thanks for sharing.

What was the pairings that led up to the Hybino?