I'm speechless right now...

[FireStorm]

Back when I first got into ball pythons, I really wanted a pied but couldn't even afford a pair of hets. So I bought 2 male het pieds from a friend, bred them to normals and kept the girls. This year, I bred the daughters of one male to the other male, and vice versa. I have a total of 4 possible het pied girls, two for each male.

As some of you know, we have been maternally incubating this year. Our Het Pied x 50% Poss Het Pied eggs are at day 71 today and I moved mom slightly to peek at them. Well, she decided not to get back on the eggs, so I decided to cut them and put them in the incubator. So, all the babies look healthy,but the outcome was not at all what we were expecting. 7 babies look normal (there's a slight chance that one is a low white pied, but I'm almost positive it is normal). But baby #8 is an albino!!!!!

Soooo...now what? There are two possibilites as I see it...either there was some sort of mixup and the males I got were really het albino OR I have double hets. I'm really curious now...I got eggs from two other possible het pieds, and one from the sire of this clutch to a 100% pied from a different breeder. Obviously, if one of the normals turns out to be a low white pied, they are double hets...and if I get a pied from the 100% het pairing then at least daddy must be a double het. So any advice on proving out what I have is appreciated.

I got the het pieds with the goal of making double het albino pieds once I produced a pied...I really hope I am getting a head start...At least I know mom is 100% for albino, she could have turned out to be a normal

[The Serpent Merchant]

Wow that's nuts. Looks like you have some more breeding to do!

[hypersomniacjoo]

we want PICS ))))))))))

[DooLittle]

Wow, what a cool surprise!

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[pigfat]

Now shoot for albino pied!


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[Andybill]

Oh wow! Thats insane! Fingers crossed for a low white pied in there too and then . . . eventually somewhere down the line an albino pied! one of the coolest morphs on the planet IMO! Good luck and keep us posted! And of course we want pics!

[FireStorm]

The little maybe low white pied is being shy. I went to peek at them again and it had rearranged itself...I swore I saw white and went to grab a flashlight and when I got back the little bugger balled up again. I only cut small slits in the eggs, so no pics yet but you can bet I will post them as soon as they come out.

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They should be out soon. They are at day 71 for goodness sake.

[Sama]

Wow, that would be a cool surprise, keep up posted!

[Coleslaw007]

And this is why this hobby is so fun.

Keeping my fingers crossed you've got double hets.

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[youbeyouibei]

I love this hobby more & more & it's because of posts such as yours! Here's to double hets; good luck!