Boa Genetics and 'Outcomes' - Albino, Anery & Hypo - Hets, Visuals and Supers

[bladeblaster]

snow is a double trait morph, its a combination of both visual albino and visual anery. There is actually no het for snow but people refer to a snake carrying the genes required as a het snow. i.e. a visual albino that was het anery would be refered to as an albino het snow. Technically this is incorrect, its an albino het anery, but the description commonly used.

[mikerichards]

ok cool, thanks

[Jake89]

Hey mate, yea what bladeblaster was saying is correct. Thanks man


Yea a Double het is something that is carrying 2 recessive traits.
A snow is a Visual albino AND Visual Anery in one snake, Snow isnt its own morph, its a combination of two! A Het snow is a visual het the other gene needed to create snow e.g albino het anery or anery het albino.

All this said you they come to Triple Het moonglow which is techically incorrect as the animal isnt het for 3 traits, it is visual hypo and only het for 2 'Albino & Anery' Confusing these genetics i know but you will get the hang mate, just keep at it.

Want to know anything else just post here, if im not about some one will help you

[mikerichards]

cool thanks, so just to clarify, how can a snake be triple het moonglow?? i know you say its technically impossible, but a snake can be triple het, ie albino, anery and sunglow, but i cant see how triple het moonglow is anything but confusing?
Is moonglow its own morph, or is it another combination of recessives?

Thanks

[Jake89]

Originally Posted by mikerichards

cool thanks, so just to clarify, how can a snake be triple het moonglow?? i know you say its technically impossible, but a snake can be triple het, ie albino, anery and sunglow, but i cant see how triple het moonglow is anything but confusing?
Is moonglow its own morph, or is it another combination of recessives?

Thanks

It cant be het sunglow as sunglow is 2 morphs to make one, it also is not a morph of its own.
There are only afew base colour morphs,
Hypo, Anery T1, Anery T2, Albino Khal, Albino Sharp, Albino t+

The likes of sunglow, moonglow, ghost, snow are all just different combitations of those morphs in one boa to create a new morphs!

so as you can see form that you cant really have anything recessive for 3 genes as you cant have both anery genes in one animal as they arnt compatable and same with the sharp and khal gene, they arent compatable!

A triple het moonglow is a visual hypo het albino het anery.

[mikerichards]

ah ok thanks, i was just using the sunglow as an example, but i see what you mean. Know the base colour morphs makes life a lot easier.
Is it just the boas that are able to show 2 recessive genes like that or can all snakes do that??

I am actually looking to breed boas soon, so am really gratefull for your help.
I have a normal het albino and a surinam at the mo, both males!!! but i am getting more soon!!!
Mike

[Jake89]

Originally Posted by mikerichards

ah ok thanks, i was just using the sunglow as an example, but i see what you mean. Know the base colour morphs makes life a lot easier.
Is it just the boas that are able to show 2 recessive genes like that or can all snakes do that??

I am actually looking to breed boas soon, so am really gratefull for your help.
I have a normal het albino and a surinam at the mo, both males!!! but i am getting more soon!!!
Mike

All snakes are able to do it given they have the correct genes from the parents.

[mikerichards]

ok cool.
So, on the list above, one set of offspring are hypo het albino, double het sunglow.
is the double het reffering to the hypo and the albino? as if its showing surely its not a het, although it is in a way, being that both arepassed on.
Or is it double het because they are both traits and are both passed?

[Jake89]

Originally Posted by mikerichards

ok cool.
So, on the list above, one set of offspring are hypo het albino, double het sunglow.
is the double het reffering to the hypo and the albino? as if its showing surely its not a het, although it is in a way, being that both arepassed on.
Or is it double het because they are both traits and are both passed?

Your going abit to deep a dh sunglow is hypo het albino. I know it isnt het for 2 genes but thats just what its called. Triple het moonglow 'hypo het albino het anery' Only realy het for 2 genes as the third is a visual but its still called triple het. Double het ghost is a Hypo het Anery, only realy het for one trait as hypo is visual. Its just the words the genetics have adopted over the years

[bladeblaster]

Originally Posted by Jake89

Hey mate, yea what bladeblaster was saying is correct. Thanks man

Anytime mate.