I would say that this one falls as close as you can get to a extreme without being a "extreme".It has ruby red eyes and has little to no tipping and has grey but it has darg grey.I think its a very cool looking grey and I haven't seen another one like him.He is also 100% het for albino.
I have another hypo thats 100% het for albino that I got at the same time and as babies you couldn't really tell them apart.Now the other one is probably the lightest orange snake I have ever seen.Its almost transperant and is like a orange on orange as far as the inner vs.outer bands are concerned.
Anyways,There is a huge huge range and we keep seeing it grow every year but I have for a couple years thought that there are three types of hypos flowting around out there.Now keep in mind that This is just my theory and I don't have any credible evidence to back this up other than my own watchfull eye.
I guess you could say I have used for myself a,b and c just for simple practice like that of the anery gene in corns.
The oldest first line of hypos (love) would be that of (a) and is dark eyed and has alot of tipping compared to todays standards.When we look back and look at a hypo in (96)or so and look at just a tangerine it was a pretty killer snake and a huge leap for the hobby.
I think the second line may have come from Bruce Miller or some other unknown place and was a little cleaner and was red eyed (b).
Now,Yes it was compatible and this may be due to the fact that it was just line bred and a cleaned up version of the (a)but it also could have been a totally different gene that was masked for a generation until one was uncovered by the other during the next outcross.
I noticed that early on in my breedings that I would hatch out both light,clean red eyed and regular looking average dark eyed hypos from the same clutches.I guess that Maybe both parents were het "per say" for the other!
Sometimes I would just change a male (or vise-versa) the next year and get all of one kind.
Now keep in mind that all of these dark eyed babies going out would have been possible het for the red eye and the lighter more brighter orange.Now,You may be saying yes but wouldn't the red eyed be het for the dark eyes that are darker red etc.The answer is yes and no.Yes but you would never see it because its like saying its a tangerine albino but its a hybino.It gets masked.
The red eyes and the brighter lighter orange for whatever reason will always take over.
The third hypo ofcourse is the Mike Falcon extreme (c).I am not totally sure of its genetic makeup but I have my own ideas and I would bet that it involves a couple generations of line bred (b)hypos hooking up and maybe something else?But thats why its also compatible and you will always get hypos no matter what you breed in the hondurans.
Happy Hondurnicka
Shannon
