A math problem...

After cutting on day 52, did you mist the eggs until they pipped? Or did you just leave them?

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Originally Posted by swansonbb

Very curious as to what you thought it said.

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Replace the a, with an e in "Math". Which is why I was like O_O Annnyways, congrats on crushing the odds there!

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Originally Posted by Zuma22

That is pretty insane...absolute grand slam all the way! If they start to feel like too much of a handful, though...I'm happy to help relieve the burden :P

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I'm so lucky to be surrounded by such helpful people.

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Originally Posted by samh0114

After cutting on day 52, did you mist the eggs until they pipped? Or did you just leave them?

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Left them in the tub in the incubator. Tub was covered with press & seal - no need to mist, humidity was very high.

Yay, congrats! I love baby snakes, but hate math, lol...

Those odds are amazing. You have any other het to het pairings? :gj:

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Originally Posted by adamsky27

Those odds are amazing. You have any other het to het pairings? :gj:

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Sadly, not this year. I have a pair of het pieds I'm growing, but they're probably 2 seasons away.

VERY NICE ODDS! I wish I could get that lucky!

For those not understanding the math, here goes:

0.25 x 0.25 x 0.25 x 0.25 x 0.75 = 0.0029296875 x 100 (to change to a percent) = 0.293%!

I've got a math minor and happen to love not only math, but genetics as well!

Only the event changes, the probability doesn't change it's still 25%

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Originally Posted by Peoples

Only the event changes, the probability doesn't change it's still 25%

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The probability of getting a favorable event is 25%. The probably of not getting a favorable event (aka getting an unfavorable event) is 75%.

Think of it in terms of genetics. Here we're looking at albinos. if you look at the genetics calculator, you get something that looks like this:

• 25% Normals
• 50% het albino
• 25% albino

In this example, the probability of getting a favorable event (a visual albino) is 25%. The probably of getting an unfavorable event (everything that is not a visual albino) is 75% because you have a 25% chance of getting a normal and 50% chance of getting het albinos.

The female laid 5 eggs and the OP wanted to know what's the probability that 4 eggs have an albino in it. So, we know that the probability of getting an albino is 25%. So, we have to multiply those odds x 4 eggs. So you get 25% x 25% x 25% x 25%. Now, the 5th egg is an UNfavorable event meaning that it is not albino. So since we said there's a 75% chance of not getting an albino, then you multiply that with the 25%s. So that leaves you with: 25% x 25% x 25% x 25% x 75% = 0.293%.

basically, the odds of getting 4 albinos in a 5 egg clutch from 2 het albinos is slim to none! Clearly the OP did something to make the odd gods very, very happy!