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Hello all,

I am just curious what makes a hybino different from an albino in apperance. I understand that an albino lacks melanin and that a hypomelanistic snake has reduced melanin. So what contribution does the hypo gene make to the apperance when the albino gene already prevented melanin formation?

(I guess I mean how can melanin be reduced if its not there to begin with.)

Thanks
Vinny
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“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859

The melanin pigmentation also knowned as black tipping on wild type hondurans is expressed on amelanistic specimens as white tipping.

Hypomelanism reduces the tipping and on a Hybino the white tipping would be greatly reduced or absent on a trophy specimen.

Hope this helps

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Marc Bouchard
Selectively Bred Serpents
www.selectively-bred-serpents.ca

If that's a hybino, I like hybinos! Do adult hybinos look that good?

Thanks, I am getting there.

One more question though.

>>Hypomelanism reduces the tipping and on a Hybino the white tipping would be greatly reduced or absent on a trophy specimen.

So, the reduction in tipping with the hypo gene is not just a reduction in the ammount of pigment produced but also the area that is pigmented ?

Thanks again,
Vinny
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“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859

''So, the reduction in tipping with the hypo gene is not just a reduction in the ammount of pigment produced but also the area that is pigmented''

Exactly, the Extreme Hypos will even further improve on cleaning the tipping in all sub-sequent generations.

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Marc Bouchard
Selectively Bred Serpents
www.selectively-bred-serpents.ca

marc what about extreme hybinos?

did someone tried to produce something like that?
do u think it will look like a albino with less white places?

I think Adam @ Selective Origins has bred his awesome Extreme Hypo male to albinos.

The hybinos from this pairing would surely be cleaner then all others.
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Marc Bouchard
Selectively Bred Serpents
www.selectively-bred-serpents.ca