Albino to pastel

Starting to make some plan's , tell me if I'm wrong.If you breed an albino to a pastel the clutch would all be pastel's which would be 100%hetalbino.

Nope. You'd have a 50% chance of getting pastels, but they would all be Het for Albino.

So out of four hatchling's I'd have I'd still have 2 norm's and two pastel's? But wouldn't they all be 100%? That's what I don't understand

Have you seen the pictures of the pastel albinos?

-adam

No Adam do you have any? Or where can I see them?

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Originally Posted by emilio

No Adam do you have any? Or where can I see them?

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Not sure where you can find them online, and I don't have permission to share the ones that I have, but I'd think you'd definitely want to find those pics before you start on an albino pastel project.

-adam

IMO they're not that spectacular. Ralph Davis has a page about it in his Matrix:

http://ralphdavisreptiles.com/matrix...ino_pastel.asp

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Originally Posted by emilio

So out of four hatchling's I'd have I'd still have 2 norm's and two pastel's? But wouldn't they all be 100%? That's what I don't understand

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Pastel and albino genes are different. The pastel gene is dominant, so breeding a pastel to a normal, the average breakdown is that half the babies would be pastel, half would be normal (since both pastel and normal are dominant genes).

The albino gene is recessive, which means a dominant gene will always win out unless both parents just have the recessive gene. So, for example, breed an albino to a normal, all the baby look normal but all carry the albino gene (100% het for albino). Breed an albino to an albino and bam, all albinos.

Okay, so breeding a pastel to an albino and you'll get, on average half the snakes that look pastel and half that look normal, but all will carry the albino gene. Make sense?

Others please correct me if I'm wrong!

Thanx Jen from what I saw it's probably not a big deal.The head fading is not going to make an already amazing animal more appealing.What do you guy's think?

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Originally Posted by emilio

So out of four hatchling's I'd have I'd still have 2 norm's and two pastel's? But wouldn't they all be 100%? That's what I don't understand

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Yes, they would all be 100% Het. Think of it this way, the pastel is essentially a Het and the albino is Homozygous. If you were to breed a Super Pastel to an Albino, you would get all Pastels that were all 100% Het for Albino. Adam is right, though. A pastel Albino isn't very impressive. I don't know of too many 'mixes' that are cool with Abinos except for Pieds and the pattern morphs (spiders, pins) but that might change this year with Super Cinnies... but it might make "just another" white snake. ;)