Het Albino x Het Axanthic?

[GenePirate]

You'd get a 25% chance of getting a visual. Hopefully, the Mendelian gods will smile upon you. Heaven knows we've had disappointing seasons where we did not get visuals. And, then there are some lucky folks who get far greater than 25% success. Good luck! Axanthics are beautiful.

Lisa Staley
http://www.theherpvault.com

[ricky5042]

Thanks i hope i do get a visual Axanthic cos for sure i couldnt afford to buy one
il be happy with just 1 for my personel collection

[FIREball]

Why? Only 25% would be double het... Can you explain?

Each snake has 50% chance of being het albino and axanthic, therefore they are 50% double hets....not 50% of the clutch would be double het

[Bruce Whitehead]

Thanks all for your replies
im getting a male and female 100% het Axanthics in a couple of weeks brother and sister would it be ok to breed them and what chance of a visual Axanthic?

Rick

That is the way to go if you want to produce an axanthic.

Streamline it and work with what is your priority. Otherwise you can invest a lot of time and money and not produce what you want.

100% hets bred to each other give you... in a clutch of four.

1 axanthic
1 normal
2 66% possible hets

You hold back all the daughters and breed them back to dad and in produce more the next season.

Good luck with the project. I really like Axanthics, I think they are a must have in any collection.

And yes, parents bred to offspring and siblings bred to each other is fine.

Bruce

[RandyRemington]

If you do decide to go for the possibly quicker but less sure route to snows by breeding the het albino to the het axanthic then you could keep back all the female possible double hets and buy an unrelated for sure double het male (careful of compatibility on the axanthic line) to breed them to. Still a long multi generational project with no assurance you will even have the double het pair to get the 1:16 shot at snow eventually. But I'm doing worse, I'm breeding a possible double het male to a possible het albino female.

[lifreediver]

what would this produce and how far would this be from a snow LoL thanks guys and girls

[AaronP]

A Genetic breeding nightmare, lol.

[RandyRemington]

lol

My breeding or the original het X het?

If you have the money by all means get a pair of snows (seems like I saw a pair on KS for 5 or 6K) and remove all doubt by producing 100% snow clutches.

I like the fun of breeding possible hets. In 2003 I bred possible double het snow to possible het albino and in two surviving eggs had two albinos. But I did something wrong (most likely treating infertile eggs in the same clutch with foot powder) and they where both kinked so I never got to find out if they where also het axanthic. But that's what I'm hoping for this year, some keeper albinos with a shot at having something extra.

[GenePirate]

im getting a male and female 100% het Axanthics in a couple of weeks brother and sister would it be ok to breed them and what chance of a visual Axanthic?

Wild pythons have a limited range and therefore a shallow gene pool, so inbreeding does occur. VPI asserts that inbreeding snakes in captivity increases the likelihood of expression of recessive traits, both desirable traits and deleterious traits, and that inbreeding has produced snakes with problems. Formal studies are lacking, and the ball python genome has not been sequenced yet. Veterinary care for herps is not as advanced as it is in other species, and as you know, compromised snakes often hide their infirmities quite well. A study of melanistic garter snakes in 1997 by J. Chelebowy proposed that degenerative effects are caused by increasing inbreeding. It has been suggested by some breeders that tail kinks in caramels and head wobble in spiders may be a result of increased inbreeding. IF this is indeed the cause and effect then perhaps these abnormalities may confer a selective disadvantage in the wild, though animals with these abnormalities that are properly housed and fed in captivity without predation do just fine. Though snakes appear to be highly tolerant of inbreeding, it would be my advice to do it when you need to and avoid it when you can.

[AaronP]

the original het X het?

This. I'd rather work with say a 50% DHet Snow and a 100% DHet rather than two 100% Hets bred together. That's a lot of normal looking babies to hold back. In the long run you might as well buy a pair of Double Hets, or heck make your own pair!