HET Caramel Albino X Het Albino = ????

[Patrick Long]

are these albino genes completely different from each other?

[LadyOhh]

Yes.

You would get double possible hets

[BChambers]

are these albino genes completely different from each other?

Yes-if you cross the two hets then all the offspring will be 50% possible het for albino, and 50% possible het for caramel albino.

Brad Chambers

[Patrick Long]

so in doing double hets, your chances for normal offspring are null?

[LadyOhh]

No No No...

50% Possible Caramel Het and an additional 50% Possible Albino Het

A very real possibility that they could be normal.

Proving out is all that can be done...

Would take a while, considering you would have to take a breeding season for each het type... Unless you had a double het animal.

[ama1997]

It would take you a while to figure out if the poss hets were hets. You do that breeding and get babies. Grow the babies up Breed them back to mom and dad or whatever. You might get lucky and get the animal showing both genes. Maybe not too that doesnt mean that that snake is not a het. You just might have missed it that year. Unless you hit it on the first year of breeding the poss hets to the hets. Its good to breed them a few years to be 100% sure that they are just normals. That will take forever as long as it could take you to get an Albino Carmel Albino or whatever it would be called. You could have saved the money bought a male carmel and female albion or whatever you want. Grow them up and breed them and have a bunch of 100% double hets.

[Patrick Long]

well, what i was getting down to is if the albino gene would shine through, and increase the chance of the albino giving both sets.


if that makes any sense to anyone

[LadyOhh]

Your question makes sense, and to my knowledge, the Albino gene and the Caramel Albino gene are completely seperate alleles, and therefore one cannot enhance the other genetically speaking, as in they will not ALL be albino because they carry a possibility of the Caramel gene.

[RandyRemington]

I've not heard of anyone breeding caramel to albino yet to put it to the test. There was actually an imported caramel from years ago that produced albinos that could be explained by caramel and albino being alleles - different versions of the same gene. The more accepted explanation is that he just also happened to be het albino. Eventually someone will breed a homozygous caramel to a homozygous albino and let us know if they produce all normal looking double hets (indicating separate genes as generally accepted) or perhaps caramel looking animals (indicating alleles) and then we'll finally know if they are compatible or not.

[Patrick Long]

thanx guys!...and gals!