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Tracy Barker
at Sun Jul 30 17:00:42 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Tracy Barker ]
My one cent! When I saw these snakes the word "paradox" came to mind. I have had a number of paradox animals (boa and python).
In the pythons I have had (ball and Burmese)I have bred them upside down and sideways--and three things were clear.
1) there are what we call 50/50's-animals that look half and half, but it's genotype is hetero (Aa)--meaning a 50/50 paradox albino when bred to an albino produces 1/2 normal and 1/2 albino babies and no paradox babies. 2) there are what we call a little bit paradox that look 90% albino and 10% normal, but genotype is albino (aa)and when bred to an albino produces 100% albinos and no paradox babies. 3) To date the only paradox animal that has been proven (a simple recessive) originates from a sandboa that was a paradox albino imported almost 7 years ago. The black is linked to the albino gene and only albinos and snows can be paradox--meaning you can't have an axanthic paradox or a normal paradox.
Having stated that--if they are like the known python paradox animals it is possible that the normal headed animal is a "het" or yellow belly, and the white headed animal is a super or Ivory.
Now, what is VERY rare is that two animals hatched like this in the same clutch--that is the good news!! That would argue the point that there is something going on and much further breeding needs to be done--wouldn't it be so awesome if you could line breed these guys and make more of them, especially if you just had to breed them to a yellow belly to get more! Same for the super Mojave ghost--!! It is possible that there is something going on with these dominants that when bred to other mutations unusual things happen....
Re the pied thing--The original female from the wild would have had to be het--then when Josh bred her he would have had to pick the male baby from the clutch (that was a 50% het, but turned out was a 100% het) and then he would have been doing a cross that was approx a dh x dh so a 1/16, and then he would hit on that TWO times in a single clutch--and we all know only Ralph is that lucky!!
Congrats Josh--awesome animals!
Tracy
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RE: PARADOX IVORY BALL PYTHONS - Tracy Barker, Sun Jul 30 17:00:42 2006