Originally 'sunset' was a line of super hypo hog from Damien Saldano from D&M. Anyways, it was a super hypo pure CA hog bred to a super hypo pure CA hog boa. There is no colombian/south american BCI in a true sunset. So the guy you were talking to is right kind of. There is no het for hypo. It's a co-dom gene so there is no such thing as het for hypo, either the boa will be hypo or not. Now breeding hypo x hypo will give you an X chance for a super hypo or normals. Then you take the super hypo and breed it back to the hypo and hope for more super hypos. Now i dont remember but i think there was a formula for breeding offspring to parents. One of them was bad, like breeding dad to daughter or son to mom, i can't remember.
So you would have to breed a hypo hog x hypo hog and then you have a chance of getting a super hypo hog aka sunset. The chances arent great which I'm guessing is why the guy said super hypo hog to super hypo hog as a super hypo to super hypo gives you 100% for super hypos. And super sunset is kind of redundant as a sunset is a super hypo hog from D&M originally. It's like calling a salmon boa a salmon hypo. It's redundant in the fact that a salmon is a hypo but from Rich Ihles line. The sunset is from D&M line but a lot of people call them all sunsets like a lot of people call baby sunglows lipsticks and people call hypos salmons.
So bottom line is to be a true sunset boa, it has to be pure CA Hog with no South American/common boa influence and has to be a super hypo. And if you want to get technical, it has to be from Damien Saldano in its bloodline. And of course there is different qualities to them. You want parents that have the bright reds and yellows. Kind of like with moonglows and snowglows, you want the parents to hold as much white as possible into adulthood. So while someone might breed super hypo hogs and call them sunsets, if they arent that nice vivid color, then to me, they are just super hypo hogs, not sunset boas. Now i might be wrong on a couple points here but this is what i have learned about them.
BTW which FB group was this? Boa Constrictor keepers? Boa Constrictor JB? Pure Locality boas?
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