Thats a very good question. I don't know if anyone has run across incompatible morphs in ball pythons yet, mainly because they are still so new, but the chances are that there are some. There are other morphs in other species of reptiles that appear to be incompatible. For instance, nobody has produced an anerythistic/lavender corn snake.



Currently I have a couple of pairs of normal looking leopard geckos where the parents were Tremper albinos and patternless, you would THINK that they would be double hets with the ability to produce patternless albinos. However, I was talking about these a couple of nights ago with Sean and he mentioned that he heard that they were incompatible. Last night I saw the guy I bought them from and he said that it could very well be true. While there are a number of people working with them, there have been very few claims of producing any and no actual proof. I believe that with the numbers of double hets out there, and taking into account the "normal" 1 in 16 ratio for double hets to produce double homozygous, there would be many dozens of patternless albinos hatched by now, but that is quite obviously not the case.



Now, it's not that big of a deal for me. I knew that none had yet been produced when I bought them, I just took it on as an interesting project. Of course it also helps that I didn't spend thousands of dollars on them either. When I see an ad for "double het" for albino piebalds for 10's of thousands of dollars, I know that it's a gamble in every real sense of the word and you could be throwing your money away if that mix doesn't work out. However, if it DOES work out you could more then make your money back. I guess it all depends on how lucky you feel.



Mark



Sorry I got so long winded, I just find this a very interesting topic.

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