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Something doesn't add up. Either the amber was a caramel het hypo, or the male was a lavender/pewter het hypo. I've crossed a pair of hypos that produced normals, too. The reason is that one of them looked hypo but was in fact not a genetic hypo. There are some convincingly hypo-looking snakes out there that are not genetic hypos, and they've fooled some long-experienced breeders. I'd bet this is another one of those cases.Vinman said:no the male was a hypo lavender bloodrerd it is Rich Z main breeder male also The male could have been both hypo lavender bloodred and hypo petwer I asked him to prove it out but he didn't
Even if we're talking about two different hypo genes, one of them still was not homozygous hypo as shown by the normal hatchlings they produced. Either way something was misidentified. Was it a non-genetic hypo that looked like a hypo, or a genetic (but not HypoA) hypo that looked like a hypo?
Also, looking back at Rich Hume's hatchlings from his pair of normals, he got amels. This shows that the ultra gene does not exist anywhere in the clutch that produced his peach specimen or their parents, not even as hets.
It is still a possibility (though IMO not likely) that the founding amber was a golddust het hypo. But even if that were true, it wouldn't have affected the outcomes in Rich Hume's clutch.