What would we get if we breed a pastel to an albino?

[2tonks2-d]

We are fairly new to ball pythons, having started out with corns. We have a pastel male and like the albinos. We were thinking about breeding in a few years. I dont know enough about the morphs to know what I would get out if that? Thanks

[Freakie_frog]

Pastel het albino and het albino

[Mohegan]

You actually can get "pastel albinos". A lot of the time these snakes are pretty difficult to tell apart from regular high-contrast albinos. It basically deepens the yellow and adds more yellow to their heads.

[OhhWatALoser]

You actually can get "pastel albinos". A lot of the time these snakes are pretty difficult to tell apart from regular high-contrast albinos. It basically deepens the yellow and adds more yellow to their heads.

But that would require at the very least, parents being het albino.

[Mohegan]

OP is talking about breeding a pastel and an albino so...yup.

[Amon Ra Reptiles]

You can't get a pastel albino. BOTH parents would need to either be albino or het for albino not just one of them. The OP is breeding an albino to a pastel so...pastel HET albino and het albino offspring. No visual albino offspring would be possible.

[Mohegan]

Oh gotcha, my bad, misunderstood you. It has always been my understanding that strictly an albino x pastel pairing will produce albino pastels, though I totally understand I could be wrong. Makes sense with albino being recessive, anyway.

[2tonks2-d]

Thanks for the answers. I don't know all there is to know about genetics and morphs. Found a book that looks pretty helpful, gotta order it though. So what would be the best match for a pastel to get something cool? We dont know our males background, we adopted him. He is roughly 3 years old. We love him to pieces tho!

[BPelizabeth]

there are quite a few websites out there for genetics with BP's. Keep in mind albino is a reccessive gene....meaning you have have have to have at least 2 recessive genes to make a visual.

[Rat160]

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/wizard/

Best ive found so far. You can hold CTL to select multiple genes. Tons of hets listed as well.