How do you get different variations of albinos

Need a sticky to WOBP...then again,spoon fed kids still won't find it.;)

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Originally Posted by grcforce327

Need a sticky to WOBP...then again,spoon fed kids still won't find it.;)

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Thank you

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The guide to morphs on this forum is a great start. Make two vertical lists on paper. One side shows recessives and one side shows dominant and co-dominant morphs.

Now, check out the designer morphs on this forum. They tell what specific morph or gene combinations made that snake. See how often a snake that has 4 or 5 or 6 genes (morphs) went into making the snake look like it does. Then notice how dominant genes show up more often than recessive genes in a designer morph. Recessive gene combos often take a longer term and more expensive breeding program to produce. More holdbacks from clutches and breeding those just to see if a visual recessive snake may be het for something else the parent may or may not be able to pass on and breeding that back to parents/siblings etc. Breed an albino to a piebald, which are both recessive and very few of the snakes in the clutch will be 100% het for both. Raise that clutch to breeding size, breed them back to a parent but maybe the albino male parent bred to the females means all the females are het for piebald and not albino. I hope I have that right. I haven't managed to sleep for longer than 2 hours every 6 hours in 3 weeks.

The good news when playing with dominant genes is only one parent has to have it to make a baby that obviously carries the gene because they look like a parent. Any normal babies or babies that don't have the same pattern don't have the gene and can't pass it on to their babies because they just don't have it. It takes away the guessing game.

The morph list here is pretty small but it shows the most common ones, both single gene and designer morphs and makes it easier to understand before jumping into world of ball python site where they say there are 4000+ morphs.

When albino is mated to piebald, ALL the babies look normal and are het for both albino and piebald. (100% het is a long way of writing het.)

Albino mated to het albino, het piebald produces
1/2 albino, 50% probability het piebald
1/2 normal looking, het albino, 50% probability het piebald
Fractions are expected results. Actual results may vary.

There is a button on the WOBP morph page (under Filters) that will give a list of only the basic morphs, not the combinations (designer morphs). They say 267 basic morphs. IMO that is close but a little high. IMO, albino, albino -- faded, and albino -- high contrast are produced by the same mutant gene. So there are a jillion possible ball python designer morphs, but most have not been produced yet. And a lot of them would look alike (white).

Good luck with the sleep issues.