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[Eric Alan]

I'm double posting. Here I've done the work for you, here is the Genetic Wizard from World of Ball Pythons.

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/wi...ale=1:1&female=

This is a good way to determine what your chances are when breeding snakes. Since you don't care what type of het you are getting, I just chose a male that is het for albinism, and a normal female (which you have). When mated, you get.... ALL NORMALS, with 50% being het for albino, meaning they are still NORMAL, but MAY produce albinos when bred together.

You can lead a horse to water, but I don't think it will do a darn bit of good. Having said that, here's a better option to illustrate your point:

Male:	Normal
Female:	Het Albino
Percent	Fraction	Traits
100%	1/1	50% Possible Het Albino
View Results Page

OP: The most likely reasons for her size are: 1) developing follicles, and 2) food. The first is likely because she is an adult female and environmental changes this time of year, combined with the fact that she's living with a male, tend to trigger follicle growth. The second is likely because she just ate 5 days ago - that meal hasn't worked through her system yet.

[ECechoHO]

AIGHT DROP the breeding thing, ive never seen her like this for sooo long after eating and the rat wasn't even the biggest she's had, so circulating air in the tank is a bad idea, i thought wind blows in the wild.. my tank is setup different than errryybody else'...

[DVirginiana]

AIGHT DROP the breeding thing, ive never seen her like this for sooo long after eating and the rat wasn't even the biggest she's had, so circulating air in the tank is a bad idea, i thought wind blows in the wild.. my tank is setup different than errryybody else'...

Does wind blow inside thin rock crevices in the wild? Not often.

If you want people to drop the breeding thing, you probably shouldn't ask questions about breeding... You've already been told there's probably nothing going on since you've had her with a male for five years with no results.

[ECechoHO]

You can lead a horse to water, but I don't think it will do a darn bit of good.

Having said that, here's a better option to illustrate your point:

Male:	Normal
Female:	Het Albino
Percent	Fraction	Traits
100%	1/1	50% Possible Het Albino
View Results Page

That's all i want/need, gotta start somewhere.. 50% is better than NO%

[Lizardlicks]

At this point I'm starting to wonder if you know what "het" means? Have you done even the tiniest bit of research regarding how genetics work? It's not THAT hard to understand recessive/dominant genetic inheritance, go find a punnett square. Het is short for heterozygous. That means the snake carries ONE half of the recessive gene (vast over simplification, but I'm gonna leave alleles or anything else possibly confusing out ftm). If you want to get a snake that visually expresses- that is, actually looks like- that gene, you need to pair it with a snake that is carrying that VERY SAME GENE as well, so that their offspring have a chance of getting two matching pairs. You've said before you think your snake is het, or you're gonna get a het, or whatever, but you don't even know het for what? In another post, you listed a lot of different morphs like you were randomly picking out of a hat. But you aren't going to get some sort of rare snake jackpot that way.

Seriously, this is seventh grade science. You're a grown adult, you should be able to get your learning on.

[ECechoHO]

DVirginiana <--- dude, what was the main topic of this thread..?? why my female python is so big right, so why are you jumping off topic.. people see that and just wanna jump in and place their 2Cents into the topic that you twisted around with your smart remarks... i don't need that in my life or on what's supposed to be a forum to help people out about things..

[DVirginiana]

DVirginiana <--- dude, what was the main topic of this thread..?? why my female python is so big right, so why are you jumping off topic.. people see that and just wanna jump in and place their 2Cents into the topic that you twisted around with your smart remarks... i don't need that in my life or on what's supposed to be a forum to help people out about things..

First off, I'm far from the only one talking about your other threads, since this is pretty much the same question you've been asking. Not sure why you took so much offense to my comment, considering everyone is telling you the same thing. The main topic of your thread was the increase in size of your female; Like you've been told by others, this is probably not related to breeding based on the fact that she's been with a male for five years and probably is not suddenly gravid or preparing to mate.

If you don't want answers, don't ask questions. People have been trying to help you, you just won't listen.

[ECechoHO]

UNDERSTOOD LIZARDLICKS, jus saying the morph i wanna end up with in the long run of doing this would cost me a down payment of Nissan GTR and i ain't got it like that, SOOO i gotta do it the long drawn out way...

[Montypython696]

UNDERSTOOD LIZARDLICKS, jus saying the morph i wanna end up with in the long run of doing this would cost me a down payment of Nissan GTR and i ain't got it like that, SOOO i gotta do it the long drawn out way...

Or you can save up and buy some visual morphs instead of wasting time with breeding a het anything to a normal female.

By the time you finally get to the morph you want to end up with, you would have invested enough money in caging/food/proper husbandry/ incubators/whatever else you need for them, you would have been able to buy a Nissan GTR instead of just a down payment.

[Eric Alan]

UNDERSTOOD LIZARDLICKS, jus saying the morph i wanna end up with in the long run of doing this would cost me a down payment of Nissan GTR and i ain't got it like that, SOOO i gotta do it the long drawn out way...

I don't think the Nissan dealership would appreciate a $500 down payment on a $100,000 car.