The formula for the chance of getting at least one of what you want is 1 - the chance of the entire clutch failing to produce what you want.

In this case, het X het gives a 25% chance for each egg to have an albino. So the odds of an individual egg missing are 75%. The odds of all 7 missing is 0.75^7 (in Scientific view the Windows Calculator has an X^Y key that can calculate this by entering ".75 X^Y 7 =". So, the odds of not getting any albinos from 7 eggs from het X het are 0.75^7 = .13 = 13%. Sure you had an 87% chance of getting one or more albino if both of these where hets but the 13% chance of them missing on a 7 egg clutch even if they are both hets isn't that far out there. Some one just hit on a 1 in 1024 chance of producing 5 female pastels from a 5 egg clutch of pastel X normal so your approximately 1 in 7.5 chance of missing on albino isn't that long of a shot in comparison although of course disappointing.

Of course she might well not be a het. I've seen plenty of people who just didn't understand possible hets so turned them into hets.

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• 54 Days. - RyanT, Wed May 18 21:54:19 2005
• RE: 54 Days. - RyanT, Wed May 18 21:58:37 2005
• RE: 54 Days. - RyanT, Wed May 18 21:59:56 2005
• RE: 54 Days. - RyanT, Wed May 18 22:00:56 2005
• RE: 54 Days. - EmberBall, Wed May 18 22:50:57 2005
• It really wasn't any loss, just a little disappointing. - RyanT, Wed May 18 23:28:44 2005
• Damn, that is a - snakebstr, Thu May 19 06:59:03 2005
• RE: ( DISAPPOINTED?) - livingArtReptile, Thu May 19 08:26:28 2005
• Worth their weight in gold?....... - JP, Thu May 19 11:52:33 2005
• RE: Worth their weight in gold?.......(LOL!!!!) - livingartreptile, Thu May 19 12:52:49 2005
• RE: 54 Days. - NEWReptiles, Wed May 18 23:31:25 2005
• Can't be sure she is not a het - chrismorasky, Wed May 18 23:58:02 2005
• RE: Can't be sure she is not a het - RandyRemington, Thu May 19 00:14:23 2005
• Also, didn't you lose a couple? Or was that someone else? - jmartin104, Thu May 19 07:35:33 2005
• One died about 2 weeks ago... - RyanT, Thu May 19 09:45:37 2005
• RE: One died about 2 weeks ago... - jmartin104, Thu May 19 10:15:08 2005
• Formula - RandyRemington, Thu May 19 23:43:01 2005