What is PH Hypo?

[JakeThorn]

So I went to a reptile show and picked up a "Enchi PH Hypo." It kinda just looks like a darker pastel that has a ghost look to it. What exactly is a PH Hypo. Also as soon as i put the Enchi PH Hypo in with a YellowBelly they locked almost instantly. What will their babies look like?

[JakeThorn]

So I went to a reptile show and picked up a "Enchi PH Hypo." It kinda just looks like a brighter normal that has a ghost look to it. What exactly is a PH Hypo. Also as soon as i put the Enchi PH Hypo in with a YellowBelly they locked almost instantly. What will their babies look like?

Here is a picture of them. the one on top, ghost looking one, is the Enchi PH Hypo and the other is the yellowbelly. http://imgur.com/8xkKtak

[thegamejr]

im pretty sure the PH is possible het. so 25%, 50%, or 66% het for hypo. and that would depend on what the parents were. and i believe the offspring would be normal, enchi, yellow belly, enchi yellow belly wih chances of being Het hypo

[frostysBP]

Ph hypo mean possable het for hypo..... they will look like yellowbellys and normals het for enchi and the slim chance for het hypo. Enchi and hypo are resseive genes... i would do some more research befor you consider breeding if you are having trouble with the basics....... did u quarentine the
arival at all or just hoping its healthy.. do you have an incubator ready.

[coldbloodaddict]

Enchi is not recessive.


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[frostysBP]

Enchi and hypo are resseive genes..




Correction enchi is a co/dom. Hypo is res... so yellow belly enchi is what you get. .. .

[calmolly1]

Ph hypo mean possable het for hypo..... they will look like yellowbellys and normals het for enchi and the slim chance for het hypo. Enchi and hypo are resseive genes... i would do some more research befor you consider breeding if you are having trouble with the basics....... did u quarentine the
arival at all or just hoping its healthy.. do you have an incubator ready.

My thoughts exactly!


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[rlditmars]

PH Hypo does mean possible het for hypo. It could be that the breeding that produced the Enchi was between an Enchi and another snake and one of them may have been 100% Het for Hypo (Ghost) but there is no way to know if the gene was passed until you try to prove it out. That would be easiest done by eventually breeding the new snake with a Hypo female and seeing if any Hypos are produced. Even if it is het for hypo, it could take a couple clutches to prove out. Enchi is a codominant gene, not recessive, so the offspring you could produce may be Normal, YB, Enchi, or Enchi YB and until you prove out the Hypo I wouldn't even worry about the possibility of het for hypo in you clutch.

I agree with the poster below you that you should learn more about breeding before jumping into it, but my concern is not that you aren't clear on the genetics. (It may be helpful to the poster below you to brush up a little on genetics as well) My concern would be that it sounds like you went to a show, bought a snake, brought it home and put it with your animal without any quarentine period, what so ever. If that is not the case then forgive my presumption. If that is what you have done and the snake you purchased is carrying a disease or something lethal, what you may produce will not be an issue, as you may not have any animals left to work with. That is not responsible ownership. The number one rule of BP ownership; Always quarentine a new animal away from your collection for a period of 60 to 90 days minimum.

It's too late now to undo anything, but you may still want to look at some of the basic caresheets on this sight and sharpen up on egg incubation and hatchling care, before you need to know. Though it may be the case in some research processes, failure is not the best way to learn where living animals are concerned.

[MarkS]

Enchi is a co-dominant mutation (some will say incomplete dominant, which may be more correct but hardly anybody uses that term) It's a subtle mutation This link shows a few examples; Enchi. Possible het hypo means that it has the possibility of carrying the hypomelanistic mutation which is a recessive trait. Here is a link to some examples of hypomelanistic. Yellowbelly is another subtle mutation also known as het Ivory which is another co-dominant mutation, here are some yellowbelly examples.

If you breed the Enchi possible het hypo to a yellowbelly, you will get; enchi's, yellowbellies, normals, and enchi yellowbellies all of which will be possible het hypo.

[PitOnTheProwl]

My first thought is good luck but you seem to have forgotten a valuable step that would take you totally out of my potential buying circle.
First step is to care for the safety of your animals, this would include quarantine.
Second step would be research.