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PGoss
at Wed Nov 14 08:51:11 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PGoss ]
"im new to breeding and i wish to know more about how het works... say i have this snake - 100% het Anery and 66% het Albino, born from an Arab h/albino to an Anery h/albino. and i breed it with a "normal" bci... what will i get? will they all just look like my normal bci? will they be better priced than if i just used two normals? what would i need to get for that first snake to have some albinos?"
Your boa is a normal sibling from an arabesque litter, so the arabesque gene does not play a role in your future breedings. In other words, your boa does not carry the arabesque gene and cannot produce arabesques. No normal boas carry the arabesque gene. It works in the same manner as hypomelanism in boas. If you breed an arabesque to a normal boa, 50% of the litter should be arabesque. However, some arabesque siblings do still have the nice yellow, arabesque color, but not the pattern. That trait may be inherited.
Your sanke is only a possible het. albino, so you have two choices to prove him/her out. You can buy a 100% het albino or an albino and breed them. If you get albinos, you know your boa is a het. If your boa is a het, and you bred him another het, 25% of the litter should be albino. If you bred him to an albino, 50% of the litter should be albino. If you have even a small litter, say 10 or more babies, and none of them are albino from either your boa x het or your boa x albino breeding, then your boa most likely is not a het. If you have a very small litter, say 2 or 3 babies, that does not prove much. You may have just had bad luck with the odds. Here is an example. In the first litter that produced albinos, the first 16 babies came out normal before an actual albino was born.
If you want to produce albinos, I would purchase two 100% het. albino boas and go from there. With your boa, you could purchase a DH snow (100% het anery and 100% het albino) and breed them. You have the definite genetics to make more anerys. If your boa hits as being 100% het. albino, you could also produce albinos and you have a 1/16 shot of making a snow boa.
As for breeding your boa to a normal, you will get all normal boas. 50% of them will have the anery gene and 50% or none of them will be het. albino, depending if your boa is actually het or not. There will not be able to determine which ones are het. anery, or if they are het. albino.
When dealing with hets., it is always important to buy boas from someone you trust or a reputable breeder. Anyone with normal boas can say they have hets. or possible hets. Babies produced from your boa to a normal BCI would bring about the same prices as normal BCI. Most people will not pay more for a 50% shot at anerythrism. This was a long repsonse, but it should have covered all bases. Good luck.
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Phil Goss
www.GossReptiles.com
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RE: Question about albino breeding - PGoss, Wed Nov 14 08:51:11 2007
