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I was just cruising the classifieds and saw those adds for sunglow boas and het sunglows.. what is this?
I remember something about this from a while back, is it
the albino hog isle crosses? I forgot, thanks...

A Sunglow is a double homozygous animal that expresses both hypo and albino traits. Here is a pic of one of (I think) the Burke's from Daytona in 04....

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Luke Martin
Bronze Serpent Reptiles

Not quite.

Sunglow is a combination of salmon (aka hypo) and albino. Albino is caused by a recessive mutant gene so a boa is only albino when the mutant gene is homozygous. Salmon is a dominant mutant gene. The salmon appearance shows when the salmon mutant gene is homozygous (two salmon mutant genes) or heterozygous (a salmon mutant gene paired with a normal gene).

There have been many posts on this forum and the genetics subforum about salmons (hypos) and sunglows. Just scrolling down through a few pages will turn some up.

Paul Hollander

I feel so dumb... of couse I remember a sunglow! for some
reason the pics didn't strike me as the hypo albinos and I
thought they were something else!
DOH!
I need to research before I type in stupid questions
hahahahahahahaah
please forgive my blonde moment

Thank you Paul. A Sunglow, as well as a Ghost, Albino Motley, Jungle Albino, Albino Arabesque all must be homozygous for the anerythristic or albino gene. The other being expressed through co-dominant or a dominant gene does not have to be homozygous to be expressed. (Although the Arabesque, Motley, and Jungle genes all form a different phenotype in the "Super"

Thats not the price of the sunglow is it?

It looks like that is a multi-tiered display case. My guess is that is the price of the animal below and in front of the sunglow.

You're right. It was just wishful thinking. LOL

Sam