Panda Pied Question

[ace_singapore]

True...unless you know how to pick out the het pieds

Speaking of het pieds, do het pieds of a morph have the same kind of traits as the normal het pieds? eg. railway tracks, watery markings? TIA

[Subdriven]

I see those in normals though... I don't see how people use that as markings for het peid. unless my normal is het peid from the pet store.

[ace_singapore]

I see those in normals though... I don't see how people use that as markings for het peid. unless my normal is het peid from the pet store.

Here you go: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...et+pied+market But again, nothing is really guaranteed until proven.

[loonunit]

I don't think I would ever breed the first set of hets back to each other. I would hate having so many "possible" hets to prove out. Instead, if you take the first clutch of hets and breed it to a pied you'd get a 25% chance of pied hets, 25% black pastel/pied hets, 25% pieds, 25% black pastel/pieds. Nothing to prove out.

Then I'd take the black pastel/pieds and mate them back to each other for the 25% chance of panda pied. This takes another generation of breeding, but you'll have a lot more chances of success. Even if you only get 1 black pastel/pied from the 2nd clutch and have to mate it to a black pastel/het pied, you'd still get 12.5% chance of panda pied, and again... none of the babies are "possible" hets for anything.

I'm going to start this (and lightning/albino pieds) project once my babies are all grown up in a couple of years. It's like being a kid and waiting for Christmas!

Well, sure. The "double het" crossing is just the "canonical" way--and a good way to make some solid black snakes, if you like those particularly.

...I think it's likely I'll do something more like what you describe, especially since I'll probably have some male black pastels het pied which are ready to go long before their sisters grow up. And I have some nice pied females which should be up to size by then.

(Plus I don't really like inbreeding if I can avoid it. But that just makes things even more complicated.)

[lance]

crazy to read this as I was just talking about this project with a few people

lance

[Reps4life]

With what's already been said, maybe you want to get more than one black pastels/cinnies to increase yous chances.

well if this happens it will be a few years down the road. Im just gunna be starting my first breeding season in a year or two. Then i will start this project! My firt breeding season should be great with the animals im getting and if i have decent odds!

[Brandon Osborne]

I see those in normals though... I don't see how people use that as markings for het peid. unless my normal is het peid from the pet store.

Because it's not just the "tracks" you're looking for. All of my hets have them, have of my pos. het have them, and even my pastel het pieds have them. Ask Pete Kahl if he believes in them.