Albino piebald!!

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Originally Posted by Kurtilein

this little introduction is very good i think:

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



strange, double hets should be more expensive, how exactly are the BPs you are looking at described?

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Double heats should be more than single hets, especially for albino AND pied. The last pied I saw that was het albino was $1,900 last year for a ~500 gram male. Be prepared to spend some money if you are trying to accomplish his task. Also I'd buy from a well know larger breeder rather than taking a chance a a cheaper animal that most likely isn't what it says it is

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Originally Posted by Kurtilein

this little introduction is very good i think:

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



strange, double hets should be more expensive, how exactly are the BPs you are looking at described?

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The guys said for sale 2012 male het pied het albino $200

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Originally Posted by derekt

The guys said for sale 2012 male het pied het albino $200

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This is about right for a hatchling male, but you need to be careful that you can trust the breeder's word for the genetics. I think Deborah has one on her website: www.stewartreptiles.com and I trust her word completely.

Double het males are a dime a dozen....the females are what will burn a hole in your pocket, if you can find them for sale. And yes be sure you get paperwork from the breeder....any decent breeder should be able to provide you with genetics and photo id. I actually just passed on an adult pair of double hets because there was no paperwork provided. Just not wanting to waste a breeding and end up with possibly normals and not be able to provide paperwork for babies.

rich parinello from snakemans exotics has one and he turned down $25,000 for it and it took him almost 3 years to get it.

I am growing up 3 female double het albino pieds that I produced. then I'll be buying an albino het pied male to breed to the three of them, you can breed a male to several females, that will up the odds on hitting one.

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Originally Posted by steven80

rich parinello from snakemans exotics has one and he turned down $25,000 for it and it took him almost 3 years to get it.

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totally understandable, if you work on a double-recessive project, the first visual is worth gold. Without it, you cannot produce albino het pieds or pied het albinos, and you will produce 66% possible hets and 50% possible hets. If you dont have a visual double recessive, the easiest way is to breed albino het pied to pied het albino, but then, without a visible, the best you can breed is albino 66% het pied and pied 66% het albino.

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Originally Posted by steven80

rich parinello from snakemans exotics has one and he turned down $25,000 for it and it took him almost 3 years to get it.

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Only three years? That's actually not too bad depending on what you started with. Working from scratch and breeding an albino to a pied and raising all the double het babies to breed back to each other I think three years is about the quickest you could do it, but I think 5-6 years would be more typical.