Albinos and hets

[bman123]

I've been looking into albinos for awhile now and don't know what to do. A pair is $900-$100 or I can get a visual and het for $600 or less.
If you were to get a visual would it be a female or male and why??
I am thinking female as i won't have to play the waiting game if I want to breed her to something else the next year..

Also what albino crosses do you like?

[rabernet]

I'd get a visual male and look for a yearling het female.

The only albino combos I personally like are the albino pin and albino spider.

That's why I held off on getting an albino for so long. But - I LOVE reduced pattern albino's, so that's what I hope to do with mine - just produce more reduced patterned albino's.

[bman123]

I have alot of ideas I want to try with albinos but it will take me ages to do so lol. I really like the the albino spider, but I like ghost aswell. Only time will tell what I will do

[seeya205]

I would get the Albino male and a het female! It will save you some $$$!

[dr del]

Hi,

I have been trying to think ( always a dodgy thing ) about this.

And I think you would be best buying the female albino and a male het for a couple of different reasons already mentioned by the OP.

If we assume you buy from someone who can be trusted with hets then obviously there is no problem there.

That rules out the horrible possibility of the male or female not being a real het. But it doesn't help with the odds of getting a homozygous offspring of the right sex if that is your goal.

Not everyone will be doing this with the end goal of all albino clutches admitedly - but if they are then taking three years to get your first clutch, hitting the odds, and still having to wait another three years for those gals to reach breeding size might test your patience.

But if the female you buy now is the homozygous albino then you would only have to wait one or two years for a son to be ready to breed.

Ok it only shaves a couple of years off but it has another advantage.

If you decide to mix in other morphs with the albino the same applies if they are dom or co-dom.

So in the future your albino girl could make albino pins, black pastels and spiders etc in only a couple of seasons. If your albino is the male then you need to wait for three years to have the female hets get to breedable age.

But it really all depends on your goals - and it goes without saying it would be wiser to swap genes whenever possible. If there is someone working on a similar project then exchanging animals at each stage could strenghten both projects for little or no money.


dr del

[Sarin]

Well... If it were me.. I'd spend just a tad extra and get a visual male, and a hatchling/yearling codom het albino female. That'll really speed things up for you.

Good luck!