genetics question(s) that might be over my head...

I am going to keep this question's as "easy" as possible but keep in mind I am still learning the ropes of all this...

Ok so I know that a snow = albino X anery my question is can I do ANY albino? for example would Coral albino X Anery still get me a snow? and would it have a differen't name i.e. Coral snow?

My second question might be silly because I haven't looked into ghosts as much but if I were to pair up an albino Anrey X hypo would I get albino ghosts?

I did my best to poke around and answer these questions myself but did not have much luck... I got close at one point as far as making sharp snows but that wasn't really the question =P thank you for taking the time to read and answer.

Any albino, yes - sort of. Anery x albino = 100% het snow litter. To get snows you would need an albino het anery (het snow) x anery het [i]compatible[i] albino (het snow).

An albino anery is a snow, a ghost is a hypo anery, and an albino ghost is a moonglow. So snow x hypo would produce half normals/half hypos all 50% het snow (albino, anery).

To get snows you need both parents to be carrying both traits. It doesn't matter how they are/are not expressed. DH albino anery x DH albino anery will do the job; as will albino het anery x albino het anery, snow x DH albino anery, anery het albino x anery het albino, etc.

tossing this out there as well, don't forget there are two strains of albino - kahl and sharp and they are not compatible.

edit to add - 'Coral' is from the kahl line and is, as best as I have ever understood it, a line bred trait. A coral albino is still a regular albino. I have not seen the coral trait in snows as the anery removes the red anyways.

Originally Posted by zn394

So snow x hypo would produce half normals/half hypos all 50% het snow (albino, anery).

Just to offer a correction to the above. If one of the parents is a visual Snow, then all offspring get both an Albino and an Anery gene. So all Normals in that pairing would be 100% DH Snow, and all Hypo offspring would be 100% TH Moonglow. Since the parent is homozygous for 2 recessive traits, all offspring get a gene from each mutated pair of genes.

Good catch Rich, thanks.

Thank you for the replies everyone. I think I kept up with everything... I read on http://www.classreptilia.com/boa_morphs.htm that snows were the anry X albino. Does this mean the site it a little out of date?? I'm not trying to say anything it wrong I am just trying to make sure I fully understand...

You are looking at 3 traits: hypo, anery, and albino.

Hypo and albino = sunglow.
Anery and albino = snow.
Anery and hypo = ghost.

All 3 = Moonglow.

Thanks for the kind words, btw . It was our pleasure to meet you two.

No what it is saying is that, to be a snow the snake must have both the anery and the albino genes.

Originally Posted by smilts

No what it is saying is that, to be a snow the snake must have both the anery and the albino genes.

A snow is a visual albino and visual anery. Add in visual hypo and you have a moonglow.