>>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.

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>>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.

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>>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....

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>>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!!

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>>Congrats Josh--awesome animals!

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>>Tracy







What is so contraditory or paradoxical about two YB's het for Pied producing Ivory Pieds if that is what the case here is all about?



Wouldn't it stand to reason that those animals would be produced?



It seems to me that the animals produced are exactly what should have been produced, which to me is not a paradox or contradiction to what should have been produced.



I think the term paradox is abused in this industry ... but I guess that's just good marketing.


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