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After I get the bumps worked out of my husbandry (just had a run-in with mites, and now little guy's off feed), I'd like to pair my little dude up and get some breeding going. I don't want to make money, but I really love the look of albino BP's, and I think that it would be a good move to buy a female to mate with my (presumably) male...well, I'll have to make sure he's a male before any of this goes through anyways. It would be a few years before I decided to go through with it.

What would a normal male BP and an albino female produce? Would they all be hets, or would it be like 50% albinos, 50% hets?

albino to normal = all 100% hets
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Thanks! So does that mean I would have to hold back a couple of the hets and breed them with the female albino in order to get full albinos?

hets mean they carry the gene but don't show it, right? Any good sites for this kind of info?

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Joe Pociask Pythons - genetics

Heterozygous animals have ONE allele for a given mutation, Homozygous animals have TWO.

In recessive morphs Hets have one allele but it is not shown because wild-type is dominant over the respective recessive mutation.

In Co-dominant and in Dominant mutations the Hets look different from the normals. In Co-dominant morphs Heterozygous individuals have one phenotype and Homozygous individuals have another phenotype.

In Dominant mutations the Heterozygous and Homozygous individuals have the same phenotype.

If you breed one of your 100% Male Hets back to your Female Albino, Statistics say you should/could get 1/2 100% Hets and 1/2 Albinos.
Good luck,
Ken
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