Hypos and Breeding?

[Snakesitter]

Hi SDD, welcome to the forums!

The pictured snake, unfortunately, does not look hypo to me. The key is the black pigment, which I feel is too pronounced for this snake to be a full hypo. He is a beautiful animal, though, and maybe the seller meant het for hypo?

The only way to know for sure is through breeding trials. The cheapest way to prove him either way would be a het hypo female. A breeding between those two would produce one of the following: 50% hypos and 50% hets (if I am wrong and is indeed a hypo), or 25% hypos and 75% “67% hets” (if he is het), or 100% “50% hets” (if he is normal). If you went with a full hypo female (more expensive), you would get 100% hypos (if he is hypo), or 50% hypos and 50% hets (if he is het), or 100% hets (if he is normal).

Also, note that you are actually too late in the year to safely/reliably breed. :-( By the time you found a good female, quarantined them both, and put them together, it would be far past season.

Please let me know if I can answer any other questions for you!