Het Albino Male Just Shed *PICS*

Thanks! :)

s6g2p: I may be able to help explain it for you. OK, if you breed a 50% PH or 66% PH to a 100% het albino, it depends on if the PH's prove out to BE hets. If the PH is a HET, it should statistically prove out that first breeding, given that the 100% IS a TRUE het (lots of scammers out now a days...). By "prove out the first breeding" I mean that there will be an albino in that clutch (given that there are at least 4 eggs in the clutch) if the PH is a het. If you do not get an albino in the first clutch produced by these two animals, you can always try a couple more times; but chances are that the PH is not a het after all.

This is all STATISTICAL though, and is not always the case. It is just how the Punnett Square adds things up. ;)

Jennifer

Oh, I forgot to answer the other question. (Got sidetracked) DOH! lol...Ok..

What you are going to want to do if you get no albinos in the clutch (and you want to prove out the PH) is breed the opposite gender babies back to the PH. If you just want an albino, and you aren't really trying to prove out the PH, breed the opposite gender babies back to the 100% het, and at least one of those offspring SHOULD be a het (if the 100% het parent is a male, and you are breeding him to all the female offspring you have more of a chance to get albinos). Hope that didn't sound too confusing.

Jennifer

This link explained it to me pretty well:

http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_intro.html

What is meant by HET Albino? Is that when there is white along the body? My Arnie has white on him like Jennifer's snake.

No, "het" is a shortened form of the genetics term "heterozygous". Basically, for diploid creatures (including humans and ball pythons), there are a pair of alleles for each trait. If both of the alleles are the same, then the animal is homozygous for the trait, but if they are different, the animal is heterozygous.

For albino, then, if the alleles are aa for an albino and AA for a normal not carrying the allele, if you cross them, all their offspring will be Aa and will look normal but can produce albinos when bred to an abino or another animal with Aa. The aa albino and AA normal are both homozygous, because they have a matched set, but the Aa offspring are heterozygous.

Sometimes we don't know for certain if an animal is Aa or aa, so we call it a "poss het" or "possibly heterozygous" and usually give the statistical chances of the animal's being "het", as in a "50% het albino". A 50% het albino would be what you would get if you crossed a definite het (Aa) with a definite normal (AA), because statistically, half the offspring would be normal and half would be carriers for the recessive trait, but all would look normal.

Thats a good explanaition, thank you. Its been somewhat confusing to me but that clears things up. A quick question though: How would offspring be considered 66% (Ive seen people claim that) Is it just that one of two of the offspring have been proven normal therefore increasing the likelyhood that the others are hets?

Edit- OOOOH nm. That punnett square exlains things nicely

Edit #2- If you were to breed an albino to an albino, you wouldnt have 100% albinos would you? How does that work?

Now say that again in English :lol:
Thanks Marla.

I hope that was close enough to English. :) It's difficult to explain genetics without either using their terms or underexplaining.

Green Man, glad you figured it out from the Punnett Square. Yes, with ball pythons and any other diploid animal in which albinism is a recessive trait, albino x albino = 100% albino offspring.

thats awesome! I want to start breeding! lol

its a beauty, i love that pattern and the pics are not bad...very nice

Carnivoro