Ummm what is he?

i got a python and it said he is a
100% Het. Albino Male Ball Python

what does Het. stand for???

That means he carries the gene to produce an albino ball python when bred to another gene carrying snake.

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Originally Posted by Lillyponygirl

i got a python and it said he is a
100% Het. Albino Male Ball Python

what does Het. stand for???

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Het stands for Heterozygous which means he carries half the genes needed to produce an Albino or in genetics terms Homozygous Albino. :gj::gj:

Congrats

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

Het stands for Heterozygous which means he carries half the genes needed to produce an Albino or in genetics terms Homozygous Albino. :gj::gj:

Congrats

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Oh thanks! Yeah, the man did say that. The gene isn't dominate though, cuz he's all dark brown and cute! (heheheh he's turning two weeks!)
Wait...(sorry for my inexperienced-ness) is Ball Python a breed? It is, right?
Sorry! Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Lillyponygirl

Oh thanks! Yeah, the man did say that. The gene isn't dominate though, cuz he's all dark brown and cute! (heheheh he's turning two weeks!)
Wait...(sorry for my inexperienced-ness) is Ball Python a breed? It is, right?
Sorry! Thanks!

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I got this wrong so I had to change it
Boidae is the family, Genus is Python, species is Ball Python I guess you could say Albino is the breed. I guess.
Been 10 years since I's classified animals.

Ball Python, or Python regius is the species...

Not a breed.

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

I got this wrong so I had to change it
Boidae is the family, Genus is Python, species is Ball Python I guess you could say Albino is the breed. I guess.
Been 10 years since I's classified animals.

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ok. Again lemme try: Breed is: Albino Type is: Ball Python :snake:


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Wouldn't 'albino' be the morph or mutation?...

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Originally Posted by jknudson

Wouldn't 'albino' be the morph or mutation?...

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I actually don't know. I got my baby today he's my first SNAKE so i basically don't know, well, the details of him.
Oh yeah but im on top of the care-stuff, not to worry.

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Reptilia

Order: Squamata

Suborder: Serpentes

Family: Pythonidae

Genus: Python

Species: P. regius

"Morph/Phase": Albino

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Originally Posted by JoMo

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Reptilia

Order: Squamata

Suborder: Serpentes

Family: Pythonidae

Genus: Python

Species: P. regius

"Morph/Phase": Albino

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WOW?!?
alright thankies! I will hang onto that!

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Originally Posted by jknudson

Wouldn't 'albino' be the morph or mutation?...

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Yup!

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Originally Posted by Sputnik

Yup!

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Just sayin, cause I've never heard the morphs/mutations called breeds... :P

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Originally Posted by jknudson

Just sayin, cause I've never heard the morphs/mutations called breeds... :P

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Okay! Thanks guys! Can i throw out one more, probably obvious, question? Someone just freaked when I told them I got a BP. She told me they were poisenous, right?
I'm am 99.99% sure their not, but I hadn't really looked into it and I've been handeling Spud for a while....


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There's no such thing as a poisonous snake. There are venemous though, and ball pythons are not.

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Originally Posted by JoMo

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Reptilia

Order: Squamata

Suborder: Serpentes

Family: Pythonidae

Genus: Python

Species: P. regius

"Morph/Phase": Albino

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Now this breakdown was just cool lol

Ball Pythons (or any pythons) are not venomous.

You should click around and read the care sheet here and it will answer many of your questions.

If there is anything else not covered be sure to ask :)

Kk thanks guys! Just checking.


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Read this

Probably a little after the fact, but if anyone was insistent on referring to snakes as "breeds", I would call the species ball python the breed, and the albinism is a variation.

Ex:

You can have black labradors, white labs, and chocolate labs....but they're all of the same 'breed" (i.e. labrador retrievers).

Thus, you have albino BPs, piebalds, pastels, etc...but they're all ball pythons.

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Originally Posted by Ophiuchus

Probably a little after the fact, but if anyone was insistent on referring to snakes as "breeds", I would call the species ball python the breed, and the albinism is a variation.

Ex:

You can have black labradors, white labs, and chocolate labs....but they're all of the same 'breed" (i.e. labrador retrievers).

Thus, you have albino BPs, piebalds, pastels, etc...but they're all ball pythons.

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I've never heard the term "breed" used for species of reptiles. I've heard of dog breeds, horse breeds, goat breeds, cat breeds, but never breeds of reptiles...

And generally with the different dog breeds you get physical changes, such as coat color, size, conformation in general, etc... To get a "pure" breed you have to keep line breeding until all the offspring produced look identical. Although classified as the same species, I would personally classify different "breeds" of dogs similar to subspecies.

well a breed is a group of animals within a species such as a group of animals selectively breed to look a certain way, so if i had to say so then the "morph" can also be said to be the "breed" in this case.

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Originally Posted by bigballs

well a breed is a group of animals within a species such as a group of animals selectively breed to look a certain way, so if i had to say so then the "morph" can also be said to be the "breed" in this case.

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thanks guys!
Im just sooo used to mammals. Oh yes answer my post about the feeding plz too!

My baby wont eat. The second time we've tried this week. It's not in the dirt, i think we're doing all right. It's on top of his hidebox, where he goes often, but the mouse(s) haven't been touched!
I need help! What's wrong?!?
(I checked the temp, the boiling and whatever, the mice and ect.!!!!)


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