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Hello,

I am planning on purchasing two tangerine honduran milks for breeding purposes, either a pair of hypos het for amel, or a hypo het for amel and amel het for hypo. That would either produce hypos and hybrino, or hypos, amels, and hybrinos. What would you suggest? Are hybrinos and amels visibly different? I plan on getting these during the summer/fall of next year. Could anyone post pictures of ones that you have? Hondurans are such awesome snakes.

Thanks,
Quintin

Hondurans are awesome animals. This is my breeder pair this year. Male is tricolored, Het for albino/Tangerine. The female is albino Tangerine.

That looks like a GREAT adult pair. You'll have offspring for sure. Good Luck!

There's quite a bit of variability in albono hondos. In some causes it is very difficult, if not impossible, to tell a hybino from an albino.

Tim

Third Eye

I'd recommend the pair of hypos het/albino. That's the only way known so far to get animals that can definitely be identified as hybinos (all the albinos HAVE to be hybinos, because both parents are hypos--all the babies are hypos, so the 1/4 that are observably albinos are both, and thus hybinos). There are theories about how to distinguish a hybino from an albino but it's not conclusive yet, and even if it's correct (the theory is they're slightly paler) it is a very subtle difference and one that can only be observed when animals are placed next to each other. Even then it's just a matter of degrees, and with hondos so variable anyway i think the pairings that produce babies that MUST be hybinos is the way to go.
terry

>>Hello,
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>>I am planning on purchasing two tangerine honduran milks for breeding purposes, either a pair of hypos het for amel, or a hypo het for amel and amel het for hypo. That would either produce hypos and hybrino, or hypos, amels, and hybrinos. What would you suggest? Are hybrinos and amels visibly different? I plan on getting these during the summer/fall of next year. Could anyone post pictures of ones that you have? Hondurans are such awesome snakes.
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>>Thanks,
>>Quintin