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Hello Everyone,
I'm new to the boa forum and don't know a lot about boas. I have been a python breeder for many years.

I have 1.1 albinos 3 years old, another albino female that is about 5 years old and a 3 year old normal female. I'm hoping to get a large light colored normal female from a friend.

The normal I have now and the older of the albinos gave birth this year, I have 25 het albinos and a litter of 16 albinos. All are feeding and doing fine. I'm really pleased with how some of the albinos look. The litter of albinos had about 8 slugs.

Now I have heard that breeding albino to albino can lead to problems, such as the 8 slugs I had. I want to keep some of the albinos and some of the het females. What should I breed to albino females? Would a sunglow male have the same potential for problems as an albino male? I want to expand my boa collection but I'm not sure what to get?

I wanted to get the video from the Boaphile to learn some more, is this a good source for info? Any other places to read up on boa breeding?
I'll try to post some pics of the babies later.

The boaphile video is good (IMO) for 'new' breeders. I got it, like it.

The slugs are not from the albino to albino, slugs are just unferalized 'eggs' that can happen happen in any litter. The ablino's have some problems but its hard to explain. I believe that it was from to much inbreeding. Some people think that its a weak gene.

IMO, the problems with albino x albino pairings come from how related the animals are. Face it, ALL Kahl strain albinos are somewhat related, they can ALL trace their lineage back MULTIPLE ways to the same original albino.

A lot of breedings and outcrossings have been done. Again, IMO, if you were to get a male from a different source, ods are he'd be "less" related and could be fine to breed with your female(s). Many people believe albino to het is the best way to go, again, the het could have 50% unrelated to the albino line(s) genetics. Probably does help explain why those pairings do better.

Also, have read/heard albino females have a little bit harder time thermoregulating. And that a couple of degrees warmer seems to fix that problem.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
10.22 BRB
10.15 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

two animals Homozygous for a mutation together has the potential for problem, usually deformed babies. Albinos are known to have various eye problems for example.

It is always best to breed Het X Homozygous or Het X het. That is not to say you can't breed two homozygous together, a lot of people have done it with a variety of morphs and species without any problems.

A sunglow is also an albino, so it would fall in the same catagory of Albino X Albino.

If you want to expand and use your Albino females as breeders, I would get a new morph. Either to produce double hets, or maybe get a Motley het Albino or Jungle het Albino to still produce Albinos but other morphs as well.