Oh man, what a bust... sometimes things in the breeding world just don't go the way they should.
I had purchaed an 08 female albino that I raised from a hatchling... bought her at a show. In 09 I got an 08 male albino for the sole purpose of breeding with her. I paired them the winter of 2009 together and nothing happened. she was big enough but I guess just not ready...
So I paired them again in winter of 2010 and early in the season they locked up many times. She went off feed. They locked up a few more times, then all of a sudden they STOPPED locking up. No matter what I tried I didn't witness another lock... then a few weeks later she started feeding again.At that point, totally frustrated, I continued to rotate the albino male... and also started rotating in my male cinny and male spider. Never did see the albino lock again... but of course both the cinny and spider did every time.
then this happened:
Once the eggs were in the incubator, I regrouped and made some major changes to my breeding plans. I made several large trades, and to make a long story short, both the Female and the Male albino are now gone. But at least I still had my albino eggs that were hopefully albino! If not I would at least have spider or cinnamon 100% het albino babies....
Today... a total f'n bust. The first egg pipped and it was a normal head. Talk about total dissapointment. I ripped the rest of the eggs a little and sure enough no albinos. To add insult to injury, from what I can see (I only ripped small holes like I always do... so I can't really identify anything for sure) not only are none of them albinos, but it looks like they are ALL normals (No cinny or Albinos) !!!!
How depressing is that? raising albinos from hatchlings just trying to make a hatchling. trading them off and in the end ending up with what looks like 6 normal het albinos.
mike
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