question on morphs

[BaLLPAddICT]

if the parents are

albino het snow
anery het snow

(this is boas but i figure it will be the same as balls)

what is the outcome going to be? it confuses me when there is het something when they are already full something else.

[Patrick Long]

Well what you are saying is that you are breeding an

Albino Het Anery to an Anery Het Albino

[aalomon]

25% Normal het Snow
25% Anery het Snow
25% Albino het Snow
25% Snow

[BaLLPAddICT]

anery albino and snow are completely different?

[aalomon]

No, saying

25% Normal het Snow
25% Anery het Snow
25% Albino het Snow
25% Snow

is the same as saying

25% Normal het anery/albino
25% Anery het albino
25% Albino het anery
25% Snow

[Patrick Long]

Uhhhh....what?


A Snow is an Albino Anery

[BaLLPAddICT]

if i have a normal het snow. it can make snows with another normal het snow? i thought snow had to be made from albino and anery.... uhhhhhh

[aalomon]

Yes, you could get snows by breeding it to another het snow. Both anery and albino are recessive genes and when a snake is "het" that means it carries one copy of the gene. For a recessive gene to show, a snake needs to have both copies. Because the baby snake gets one gene from each parent, as long as it gets a copy of the gene from each parent you get a visual.

However, breeding 2 het snows together only gives you a 1/16 chance of getting a snow.

[BaLLPAddICT]

yeah i understand the whole concept with the genes except when theres more than one included. then it confuses me lol

so what if the het snow was with an albino or het albino. and why exactly is it 1 outta 16 chance now? would there still be het albinos and anerys in the clutch?

[aalomon]

If the het snow was with an albino, you would get half normals and half albinos and all of the babies would have a 50% chance of being het anery. If you paired the het snow with a het albino, 25% of the babies would be visual albinos and the rest would be 66% het albino. All of the babies would still have a 50% chance of being het anery.

Breeding a het snow to a het snow has a 1/16 chance of producing a visual snow because of both genes involved. When you breed a het to a het, 1/4 of the babies are visual. Because a snow needs to genes, you have to hit this 1/4 chance with both genes, resulting in a 1/16 chance.

Yes, when you breed a het snow to a het snow, you will also het anerys poss het albino and albinos poss het anery.