breeding question

[spiderz]

whats the diferents between breeding an "albino to het albino" or "het albino to het albino" ? any help would be appreciated thanks

[tcutting]

Likely hood of making the morph. Albino is a receive trait. and het means they carry the trait even if they look normal.

check this out
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/wizard/

[tcutting]

you can use the punnett square to figure out odds of what you may get. where one side is the mom and one the dad. the trait if you have a full Albino would be given to everyone of the babies and if you have a het for the other some will be albino and some will be het for it. So with an albino and a het you have a 50% chance at albino and 50% chance at het for albino.
So if you have 2 hets and breed them you can get an albino however that is only a 25% chance. 50% chance of het Albino and 25% normal. because of the way the trait is passed down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett_square

[spiderz]

thanks for the input and the reference ive only been involved with bp's for 4 months now so im a baby in the world of genetics cant wait to grow up lol

[tcutting]

http://www.newenglandreptile.com/gen...recessive.html
http://www.newenglandreptile.com/gen...recessive.html
http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_codom.html

more food for thought.

[spiderz]

thanks again...im really excited about the genetic aspect of being a ball python owner..... cant wait to prove out what i have and climb the genetic ladder from there

[tcutting]

It's an awesome hobby to get into. Most of what I see people doing today is co-Dom to co-Doms whether it is supers or combos of co-doms it really seems like endless possibilities. Sometimes they layer a recessive in there as well. But it gets tricky unless you have a parent that is the trait. Otherwise it's a gamble.

[spiderz]

yea it is a gamble from what ive seen like with my spider het ghost male with my pastel het ghost female i hope to prove them out and make humblebees if not i will end up with just bumblebees and so on .....i have a ways to go with them the male is 627g and the female is only 487