Albino x Caramel = ?

[littleindiangirl]

But until proven otherwise we can't be sure caramel and albino aren't alleles and the double homozygous might look like a caramel.

I guess I dont know much about snake genetics, but what do you mean they aren't alleles? and that the end result would be a caramel? Can you explain your thoughts behind that?

I took it as, the caramel cancels out black. The Albino cancel's out all pigment except for yellow. What could be left over after that when the albino allele would only leave yellow?

Unless the caramel also dilutes the yellow pigment, you may end up with a unimpressive albino.

[JoshJP7]

Joe thats the same ad I was looking for but it was taken down when I went searching for it... That snake is sooo nice lookin but that guy is crazy feeding it 1-2 medium rats a week! I wouldnt be surprised if it was an early 07 baby thats been stuffed every week... Looks a lot like a glow.

[joepythons]

Joe thats the same ad I was looking for but it was taken down when I went searching for it... That snake is sooo nice lookin but that guy is crazy feeding it 1-2 medium rats a week! I wouldnt be surprised if it was an early 07 baby thats been stuffed every week... Looks a lot like a glow.

Yea he is feeding it way to much

[littleindiangirl]

Still, it's just a caramel. A nice one though... perhaps the Double homozygous form of the "caramel x albino" would create a lavender albino without the hypo? lol, okie.. I'm done fathoming.

[JLC]

I'd still like to know what the double het caramel + albino looks like. The general assumption is a normal looking double het from breeding caramel (aka caramel albino, aka xanthic) to an albino (aka regular albino) and that the double homozygous in the next generation would look like a regular albino.

But until proven otherwise we can't be sure caramel and albino aren't alleles and the double homozygous might look like a caramel.

It's certainly true that until one is produced, everyone is just speculating on what they might look like. But the assumption that they would just look like normal albinos makes it unlikely that very many people will be attempting it. That was my whole point. I know when I start breeding, that particular combination will not be tried because there are too many others with far more exciting potential. But who knows.....we may all be missing the boat on a spectacular combo.

[hgrub]

hmmm, I might try breeding this pair together next year. By that tme the male Albino and the female caramel would be big and old enough. The Albino is '07 230 grams and the female is '06 1,300 at the mo. I think I'll go for it...unless I can get a male g-stripe in couple months lol

[WellyBelly]

Think the male will be big enough?

[hgrub]

One year from now he will be big enough coz he's eating like crazy now. Whenever I open the box he stick his head out looking for food...I think.

[RandyRemington]

Sorry, work has been getting in the way of my forum posting.

I was actually talking about the babies from the initial cross of caramel X albino which I’ve not heard being done yet. The general assumption is that these are two unrelated mutations of different genes but until that cross is done we don't know for sure. If it turns out that caramel and albino are two different mutations of the same gene (alleles, it looks like this is the case with the lesser/mojave group) then neither the homozygous caramel parent nor the homozygous albino parent would have a normal version of that common gene. If there is an allele relationship between caramel and albino then most likely the babies from crossing the two would not look normal because neither parent would have a normal copy of that gene to give. The babies with one albino version of the common gene (in the allele scenario) and one caramel version of that gene might look caramel.

On the other hand, if it does turn out that they are mutations of different genes and the double hets look normal I would also expect that the double homozygous would look albino. If they are alleles however a double homozygous would not even be possible because an animal can only have two total copies of the same gene.