New Boa!

So I brought home a little boa from Repticon.

She was labeled as 'Hypo/Salmon Het Sunglow'. Which I have no idea what I means. I know more about Balls than Boas. The guy also said that she was 75% Hog island boa. So I'm guessing there's 25% other boa in her?

Anyways, here she is! Her name is now Emmry.

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/p...uff/emmry1.jpg
http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/p...f/emmry2-1.jpg

Beautiful little boa. I'm like you I don't know what all that stuff means :)

I want to know how it can be 75% Hog along with all that other stuff. Nice looking girl anyway. Good luck with her.

Nice pick up, she'll be a nice looking adult!

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Originally Posted by Cupid

She was labeled as 'Hypo/Salmon Het Sunglow'. Which I have no idea what I means.

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"Hypo" is short for Hypo-Melanistic, meaning reduced or lack of black pigmentation, which leaves mostly the tan and pink colors. "Salmon" is used because of the resemblance to the pink/grey coloring of the fish. I can't remember if they are interchangeable terms or not, but I believe Hypo is more pink/tan, whereas Salmon is more pink/grey. "Het Sunglow" means that it carries the Sunglow gene, but it is not a visible trait. I am guessing that the "25% Other" means that one of the parents is an offspring of a Hog X Sunglow pairing.

Yeah it does look a lot like my Hog Island. Sometimes they cross breed hogs. I think it's common to cross them with red tail boas to reduce speckling the pure hogs get, among other reasons. I'd bet the other 25% is Red tail. :) Very cute snake you have. Pretty! Congrats

Pretty boa!
My guess is she was produced from a Hypo Hogg Island boa crossed with an albino boa that was 50% hogg island 50% salmon red tail (the parents of this boa would have been a pure hogg and a salmon columbian red tail - both albinos or het for albino). Since 50% of genetics come from each parent, you'd get 50% hogg from the pure hogg and 25% hogg from the crossed parent = 75% hogg 25% other. Confusing right? haha

Salmon is similar to hypo in that there is reduced black pigment, but it has more pinks and reds. So you're boa is a salmon. Sunglow is a combination of hypo and albino, since hypo is codominant and albino is recessive, your boa would have to be a hypo het for albino to be het for sunglow. More confusion to add! :)

In the end, you have a great looking boa cross!

Pretty snake!! Congrats!

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Originally Posted by bioteacher

Pretty boa!
My guess is she was produced from a Hypo Hogg Island boa crossed with an albino boa that was 50% hogg island 50% salmon red tail (the parents of this boa would have been a pure hogg and a salmon columbian red tail - both albinos or het for albino). Since 50% of genetics come from each parent, you'd get 50% hogg from the pure hogg and 25% hogg from the crossed parent = 75% hogg 25% other. Confusing right? haha

Salmon is similar to hypo in that there is reduced black pigment, but it has more pinks and reds. So you're boa is a salmon. Sunglow is a combination of hypo and albino, since hypo is codominant and albino is recessive, your boa would have to be a hypo het for albino to be het for sunglow. More confusion to add! :)

In the end, you have a great looking boa cross!

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Lol, wow. I'm a little confused.

Okay. She's Hogg and Red Tail, and she has to be het for both albino and sunglow?

So if I bred her to a red tail that was het for albino, I would get some albinos that were hogg and redtail? And if I bred her to a hogg het for sunglow and albino, I would get some sunglows and albinos? Do red tails come in sunglow?

I think I need to read up on red tail and hogg genetics..

Oh, and one more question. Can my ball and boa interact? If I wanted to hold both at the same time?