I seriously doubt that the albino gene in burmese and the albino gene in retics would or could merge into a compatible albino gene in a bateater. I would think that the offspring of a breeding of an albino retic and an albino burmese would all be 50% pos het for albino burmese, and all 50% pos het for albino retic, but not necesarily the in the same snake. Some would likely have one, or the other het trait, or none, and some may have both. But I don't think the albino genes would combine to show in the offspring. Even different retic albinos from different wild origins are not compatible.



However,.. perhaps a bateater het albino burmese that is 25% burmese, bred to a bateater het albino burmese that is 75% burmese, might make an albino bateater. Or most especially,. a bat het for both bred to a bat het for both,.. probably couldn't go wrong.



No one will know until it's done. Me personally,.. the risk of failure is such this year/season that I don't feel I want to waste an albino female (laby, patternless, granite) on the dice roll. But next year I will try this long term, multi-generation project when I have many more females to easily conduct perepheral, high risk projects. Without question.







>>I have heard many times of Bateaters, and 75% burm x 25% Retic. Has anyone ever tried to breed an Albino Bateater. You know, albino Burm and Albino Retic. Are the two albino genes even compatible??? I have been thinking about this for a while, and have never got around to posting it. Hopefully someone here can help me out.

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>>Thanks
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