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Hypo Opal?

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Flagg

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Has anyone seen or produced hypo opals?

At my local show a corn breeder there was showing me a hatchling he got from a clutch of mostly opals, lavenders and hypo lavenders. It was more white than an opal, he didn't know what it was. I thought it might be a hypo opal, looking at the others from the same clutch it makes sense.

I thought that amel masked hypo but this snake definitely looked different than an opal. Unfortunately he wasn't selling, he has 2 or 3 of them.

To me it didn't look all that spectacular, just another white , blizzard looking corn snake, but it would be nice for breeding I imagine.
 
They've gotta be out there, but I'll bet a lot of people don't know they have one. I hatched a number of snows last year, half of which should have been homo for hypo (coral snows). I couldn't tell the difference, and at least one of them should have been a coral. I doubt that it's any easier to identify homo hypo in an opal. I haven't seen enough "snopals" (anery, amel, lav) to know how their color compares to regular opals. If I remember correctly, snopals are less colorful. :shrugs:
 
Did you see that Hypo Opal at Lee's in IL? I was chatting with a friend who had some, or he thought that's what they were, there on Sat. Since it was the first ones I had ever seen your post seems too coincidental to not be the same animals. You are right about them being nice looking white snakes, nothing new there. But the genetics are interesting... Maybe Bill would consider a breeding loan? We sexed them at the show, all males.
 
LOL...small world... those snakes were HOT. I lent bill and linda my opal motley male..so I got 1st dibs on teh hypo opals. LOL

small freakne wrold. LOL

~F
 
I produced 1.3 Hypo Opals het Striped last year. They are very pink, but as most would say, Amel "mask" Hypo. I do see some differences in Corals and Hypo Amels, but not enought to pick them out if you didn't know. They seem to have a glossy look to them, if nothing else.

The breeding that produced my Hypo Opals was a Hypo Striped Lav X Hypo Amel het Lav, so they are known to be homo for Hypo.
 
I bought one last year from Ultimate Cornsnakes. He looks a bit more pink than the normal Opals I have seen. He is also getting to look a lot more neon with each shed. Only time will tell though.
 
1.0 Hypo Opal het Striped 2006

Here are a few photos of the male Hypo Opal het Striped, outside on a cloudy day. He is still too small, to really know how he is going to turn out. I can imagine, quite a bit of pink, and perhaps more orange than would normally be expected on an Opal.

Opals are difficult. They seem so change throughout their growth to adult hood. I have had some very pink ones turn white and then back to pink again. Maybe Hypo, will help to stabilize their retention of color. It sure seems to help on the Corals.

Will we continue to use Hypo Opal, as we have with Hypo Lav, or will they get their own unique Common Name. If Hypo brings out pinks, orange and Lav, perhaps they will be “Rainbows”, but for now Hypo Opals will due. Thankfully, we don‘t have to use Hypomelanistic Amelanistic Lavender.

By the way, the mother of this guy is known to be a Hypo Amel, because her parents were a Hypo het Striped Lav X Hypo Het Striped Lav breeding that proved the parents out as het Amel. I am sure that Roylance has produced a few Hypo Opals too and perhaps Striped Hypo Opals, if they didn't become victims of the weather.
 

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I sure hope that stunning peachy pink thing keeps it's color into adulthood! I'm not crazy about the Rainbow name as that one should really be reserved for that wonderful combination that actually shows most of the colors. We haven't found it yet, but I'm sure we will some day. You'll probably hate what the color of the pictured hypo opal reminds me of...sherbet. Of course, it may just be because I'm hungry.
 
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