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I have an albino het coral male and was wondering what to breed him to next year and what the results would be. I have a het albino female for this year.

Choices:
1. DH Ghost
2. Pastel
3. DH Snow
4. Salmon

Albino het coral male mated to
1. DH Ghost
1/2 salmon (AKA hypo)
1/2 normal looking
All babies would also be heterozygous albino and 50% probability heterozygous anerythristic.

2. Pastel
If this is one of the line bred pastels rather than a salmon, then all you'd get would be heterozygous albino snakes that might look a little lighter than most normal boas. In my opinion, this mating is the least likely to give you something good.

3. DH Snow
1/2 albino
1/2 normal looking
All babies would be 50% probability heterozygous anerythristic. All the normal looking babies would also be heterozygous albino.

4. Salmon
1/2 Salmon
1/2 normal looking
All babies would also be heterozygous albino. Salmon heterozygous albinos are what are called DH sunglows.

As far as I know, the coral effect in some albinos is an effect that is selected for rather being than a Mendelian mutant gene. It would be sheer luck if any of the albino babies turned out to be coral albinos.

Hope this helps.

Paul Hollander

Thanks. That helps a lot. I am looking to work towards sunglows or snows. Is this possible with an albino or am I looking at a 2 generation project, using th DH from the first breeding to produce the wanted morphs.

Kris

If you are set on those choces then it will not be possible in on generation. If you are not set on those choices I would pick up a double het sunglow (hypo het albino) and you will produce sunglows when bred to your albino. Since your albino is not het anery then if you want to go the snow route it will deffinately be a two generation project.

Problem with it beign a two generation project is that you will be limiting the gene pool by breeding offspring and with the albino genetics, kahl especially there is a higher probability of producting offspring with problems.
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- Jason F.

Not set on those choices, just kicking around some ideas for next year. I have the albino male and a nice het albino female for this season, but was trying to see what my options were for next year