Morphs using an albino ball python

[Amber1254]

Hi all! So, I've always been a colubrid person, however, my wife fell in love with a baby albino ball python at one of our local reptile shows recently and we brought him home. She came to me last week with the idea of her beginning a ball python breeding operation alongside my colubrid business. Ever since, I've been spending every spare second of my time researching genetics and different avenues she could take. I've been throwing lots of ideas at her, but am curious to see what you guys think. What would you breed a male Albino Ball Python to? I'm not worried about time or money, as I am patient and am a sucker for giving my wife what she wants. It took a long time to see her eyes light up when she sees a snake, so I'd love to see her pursue this!
Any ideas or information will be well absorbed and so appreciated

[Amber1254]

Also, I failed to mention that she likes the idea of just breeding albinos, but gets really excited about potential morphs that can be produced

[JodanOrNoDan]

Things that radically change pattern are best when working with albinos since you are basically left with only two colors. Some off the top of my head... pinstripe, spider, leopard, pied, super mojave

[enginee837]

Black pastel or enchi will make the markings on an albino much more crisp. Although some pattern changing morphs can look cool with albino, they can also end up with poor contrast and you just get what looks like a big banana. Some require full spectrum lighting to show their true beauty.
I would suggest using one of the gene calculators and find what appeals to her.

[enginee837]

Here is our Female albino spider under natural sunlight;



This is her under normal indoor lighting;


As you can see, full spectrum lighting makes a huge difference.

Here is our male albino black pastel Pin;


Personally I prefer the Albino Black pastel without the pin morph but that was the snake my eldest daughter wanted so that is what we got.

I should also add that those pictures were taken between 6 months and a year ago. I may be just me but it seems the albinos gain contrast as they get older. I could be completely wrong but it has been our observation with these two. Some sell albinos as "high contrast" but I have yet to see any difinative information linking level of contrast to a gene (meaning you can't selectively breed for it).

[piedlover79]

If I was going to go albino I'd either go albino pied (of course) or the ever amazing albino tri-stripe.

[Amber1254]

I think we're going to shoot for getting a pied female for him. Since making this thread, my wife has also gotten a Banana Pastel het Red Axanthic. We're also going to look at a Pewter male and Cinny female to hopefully get some Silver Bullets. It floors me that she has so much passion about these guys as I do with my colubrids. I'm excited to see where we end up!

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Lots of Albino combos have the yellow bleeding in the white over time.

My 2 favorites that maintain their contrast very well

[Albert Clark]

Think about the Candino and toffino as well.

[OhhWatALoser]

I'd look for enchi het albinos. Enchi takes albino to another level, look at adult pictures.