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Hello all!
I'm going to buy one male mojave ball and i have some question for you experts!
I have 2 normal 2 years old 900 grams females that are growing well and eating like pigs and i'm considering to breed them with mojave male... My questions are:
what is the expected hatching rate mojave/normal from breeding mojave x normal?
I've read that mojave x mojave is giving mojaves and super mojaves that are blue eyed leucistic, is that always thrue or it is depending from the mojave bloodline that is in some way het leucistic?

Thank you for your time

Flavio

PS: i'm asking these questions because i recived such different informations regarding that that i want to ask you for to be sure...

A mojave bred to a normal in theory should yield 50% mojave's and 50% normals. Mojave by mojave breeding should produce leucistics...I'm not exactly sure on the percentage per clutch, but I think it is 25%?

Mojave X Mojave should statistically produce:

25% Normal
50% Mojave
25% Blue-eyed Leucistics

Mojaves are a codominant heterozygous morph, with Blue-eyed Leucistic being the homozygous form. That is also why a Mojave X Normal breeding will statistically yield 50% Mojave and 50% Normal offspring.

As far as I have heard, Mojaves do not carry a black-eyed leucistic trait; you need to have a Fire X Fire breeding to get those (there are other crosses as well that will produce these).

Mojaves are also not the only morph that will produce blue-eyed leucistics. I don't know how many different codom morphs have been proven to produce the blue-eyed leucistics when homozygous, but the list keeps growing. Ralph Davis has some more information on his website about this.

Good Luck!
~Rebecca
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0.1 Dumeril's Boa '04 (Courtney)
1.2 Ball Pythons
[1.0 '05 Orange Hypo (Specter)]
[0.1 '05 Het Orange Hypo (Sylvia)]
[0.1 '03 Normal (Sue)]
0.2 American Pit Bull Terriers (40lb darling lap dogs:Brandy&Mara)

How would look like albino mojave? If breeding albino x mojave 100% het albino?

Thank you again!

Flavio

Albino (visible) X Mojave would statistically produce:
50% Mojave Heterozygous for Albino
50% Normal-looking Heterozygous for Albino

However, if you breed a Normal-looking snake that is Heterozygous for Albino to a Mojave (Het Albino X Mojave) that would statistically produce:
25% Mojave Heterozygous for Albino
25% Mojave NOT Heterozygous for Albino
25% Normal-looking Heterozygous for Albino
25% Normals NOT heterozygous for Albino
...this means that all of these snakes would be referred to as "50% possible" Hets for Albino, since you can't tell by looking at them if they carry the recessive gene for Albinism. So there would be Mojaves "50% possible" Het Albino, and Normals "50% possible" Het Albino - which would not be worth as much as the known Hets.

If you are hoping to produce an Albino Mojave, you would need to breed a Mojave that is Het Albino to an animal that is either Het for Albino or Homozygous (visible) Albino.
Mojave Het Albino X Het Albino would statistically produce:
12.5% Mojave Albino
25.0% Mojave Het Albino
12.5% Mojave NOT Het Albino
12.5% Albino
25.0% Normal-looking Het Albino
12.5% Normal NOT Het Albino
Similar to the situatiion that yielded "50% possible" Hets, this produces "66% possible" Hets, since 2/3 of the animals that are not Homozygous (visible) Albino carry that gene (Het), whether they are also expressing the Mojave trait or not.

Mojave Het Albino X Albino (visible) would statistically produce:
25% Mojave Albino
25% Mojave Het Albino
25% Albino
25% Normal-looking Het Albino
Happily, this combination produces "100%" or KNOWN Hets - there is no guesswork for you or your buyers! If offspring from this breeding does not exhibit albinism, then you know that the animal carries that gene.

Good luck! I realize this is more than you asked for, but I like this stuff.
~Rebecca
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0.1 Dumeril's Boa '04 (Courtney)
1.2 Ball Pythons
[1.0 '05 Orange Hypo (Specter)]
[0.1 '05 Het Orange Hypo (Sylvia)]
[0.1 '03 Normal (Sue)]
0.2 American Pit Bull Terriers (40lb darling lap dogs:Brandy&Mara)