Gorgeous babies! I love their colors. Is a PPA just another form of Albino, or is it a combo morph?
The PPA's are just another form of Albino interestingly. The way they are, you'd swear they were a combo, I know I originally thought so.
So far, the only two combos that I know of or can think of off hand are the Snows (Albino + Axanthic) and the Hybinos (Albino + Hypo). From what I've seen of the Hybinos, and it's only been from pictures, is that they are really not all that different, if at all, from other Albinos that I've seen. But see, like I said earlier, the whole tag of Hypo is now coming into question whether they are truly a Hypo at all. They are probably more like another form of Albino like the T+ Albinos. Of course, I don't know if there's any way other than genetic testing to totally be sure if that be the case or not. However, the "Hypos" are still very different than the typical Albinos.
Oh and those Hypos are SUH-WEEEEEET! What do Hypos normally go for ($-wise). I can definitely see myself with one of those. And those wee-axanthics are absolutely to die for Troy. I love contrasty colors
Yeah, when I first saw pictures of Casey's Hypos, I knew I had to have one. Unfortunately, they are actually quite hard to find, I think even harder than the Axanthics. I was able to procure 2 Axanthics from 2 different breeders a whole year+ before I was able to get some "Hypos".
But since you asked, I'm gonna go ahead and freak you out with the semi-current prices of most of the different western hogs (male babies of course to kinda help set the current prices) and morphs.
Normal: $50-$100 (Normals range from the typical brown/tan type specimens to greens, reds and even blonds. Prices usually are higher for the reds).
Albino: $300-$500 (Prices keep falling on these. Some albino specimens can exhibit more red which can cause prices to rise).
"Hypo": $1200
Pink Pastel Albino: $1200-$1500 (The typical price usually seems to be $1200, but due to their scarcity, I've seen prices going up to $1500 recently).
Extreme Red Albino: $1000-$1500 (These tend to range in price due to the intensity of red, obviously, more red, higher price).
Hybino: $1500-$2000? (The last time I saw one for sale, I want to say the price had come down this year from what I remembered it being at last year in the neighborhood of something like $2000. I know it wasn't cheap, that's for sure).
Anaconda (Co-Dom het for Anaconda): $3000-$3500 (The original price of these in 2008 was $3500 which was the first time they were being sold to the public. Brent, who was the originator of this line, informed me that the 2009 prices were dropping to $3000).
Axanthic: $3000-$4000 (These have definitely dropped a lot since we originally purchased our pair which we paid $4000 each. With the proliferation of several different breeders now, the market has become a lot more competitive and prices can be found in the $3000 if you know who to go to).
Patternless (Super form of Anaconda): $7500 (Brent, who produced the Anacondas, has informed me that he possibly might start selling some of his Patternless this coming year. Actually though, while I'm listing prices for males, his males are a lot more expensive in which he'll be selling the females for only $6000).
Snows: NA (Of the 4-6 Snows that now possibly exist, of which I know of 2 that belong to BHB and 2 that belong to Vin Russo, supposedly, as rumor has it, some anonymous person has another. Brian (BHB) has told me that he was offered $7500 for one of his snows but refused the offer. Vin told me that he was not parting with any of his for under $10,000).
While there are several other morphs out there, some well known and some others not so well know, that's kind of the basic gist of hognose morphs. Scary isn't it?
Here's some of what you have to look forward to with upcoming morphs over the next few years:
Ghost (Axanthic + Hypo)
Anacondas (Albino, Hypo, PPA, Axanthic, Snows, etc.)
Patternless (Albino, Hypo, PPA, Axanthic, Snows, etc.)
There's also several different patterned hogs that have yet to be successfully proven out, but if they are, then that'll just add to the insanity!
See what happens when you get me talking hognose? :laugh: