The name itself indicates that this is a colour variant – in all cases hypomelanistic and originally pink. These days Salmons appear even in orange, yellow, red and other forms. They were first discovered by Rich Ihle from the USA and he's still devotes lots of his time to breeding them. Nowadays they are being hybridized with all thinkable forms of boas and many amazingly beautiful animals are created this way. One of the branches is reduction of the pattern, where pink and orange boas with only subtle patterns emerge (somebody used hybridization with a Hog Island boa to do this), another branch is the exact opposite, an effort to get an intense colour an pattern (always without black) for example on albinos. One of the most wanted albino forms of boas these days is so called sunglow boa. The genes have been confirmed as a co-dominant. That means that in hybridization of salmons with normal boas, half of the first hatch are already going to be salmons. From the hybridization of salmons with salmons, you get salmons and supersalmons, that are impossible to identify for sure, so animals from such hatch are being sold as a “possbile supersalmon.” If the future breeding will show that salmons ans supersalmons don't differ very much, we will be able to talk about a genetic dominance instead of co-dominance. We got our salmons from Rich Ihle in the year 2001. We mostly chose animals fit for the Sunglow programme, i.e. with intense orange colour and with distinct red spots going all the way to the front part of the body, which is supposed to be looking very pretty on albinos. We are continuously keeping animals for future breed and we repeated the import from Rich Ihle, as he is several generations further in cultivating salmons. With their colouring and good heredity they are destined to be used with all our boas – we're planing jungle salmons, pastel salmons, sunglows, sunsets (hog island x salmon), but also just colour variations of salmons, red, orange and yellow. Regarding that it's a very variable form, the price is very variable as well. Common salmons are sold for around 600€ (years 2004, 2005) but the peak quality animals cost even over 3000€. Unfortunately some breeders ten to send any hypomelanistic boas as salmons. However, salmons are only one of the distinct hypomelanistic forms and their main advantage is a perfectly clean and verified heredity.

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