Hypomel

[edenlore]

There's a really lovely hypomel I've been thinking of buying-- he's realy high contrast, and actually looks quite a bit like an ultrahypo (which I totally want but can't afford). My concern is; will hypomel colours fade as the snake gets older, or will they develop?

 

[Susan]

By hypomel, I'm assuming you've found an amel that is also homozygous for hypo. As far as I know, the hypo gene has not been proven to have any influence on the color of amels. Therefore, the amel you found will develop as any other amel would. That means, you really can't tell unless you have an idea what the parents look like. If they were, for example, candy cane amels, then the chances of that hatchling keeping it's high contrast, like a candy cane, is greater than if the parents were just "typical" amels. From my experience, amels rarely look like they did as hatchlings when they grow up, mostly because the yellow and ground colors develop as the snake gets older. This happens with the other morphs as well.

 

[panda]

Many folks shorten hypomelanistic to hypomel.

 

[NI GUY]

Being that the corns in N.Ireland,I would find
it unlikely that any of the shops here would have
an amel-hypo and know it.I think it likely a hypo
but who knows,anythings possible with some of them.


To answer your question about colour change,is that
all corn change there colour as they grow.Here is
a couple of pic of my sub-adult hypo's.One normal
hypo first and my crimson second and last a little
crimson hatchling.