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I recently aquired a 1.2 trio of 50% suriname/100% het albino adults.

I want to know if it is relatively safe to breed this male to the females, they are all siblings from the same litter.

I have a columbian albino male, but the offspring would only be 25% suriname, not really the result I want.

I am on the hunt for another unrelated male, but in the meantime these girls are nearly ready to go for this year...

Ideas, opinions, please?

Thanks!

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Heather J. Martin
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0.1 Solomon island ground boa, adult "Miss Boa"
0.0.1 Green anaconda, juvenile "Dot"
0.1 Burmese python, 10' "Molly"
2.0 '06 66% het kahl albino boas
0.2 '04 het kahl albino boas
1.0 '05 kahl albino boa

Relatively OK to breed sibs as long as tou know the parents were not sibs as well. From your description "50% suriname/100% het albino" that implies a albino columbian bred to a suri. Duh not already related. Be sure to identify the offspring as F2's.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

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

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

You are correct, the parents were a suriname and columbian kahl albino...

I guess all the doom and gloom about pairing siblings that had me so scared was probably referring to multiple familial inbreeding.

Just wanted to be sure.

Thanks for the info!
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Heather J. Martin
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0.1 Solomon island ground boa, adult "Miss Boa"
0.0.1 Green anaconda, juvenile "Dot"
0.1 Burmese python, 10' "Molly"
2.0 '06 66% het kahl albino boas
0.2 '04 het kahl albino boas
1.0 '05 kahl albino boa

My only comment is that to most people who love localities (like me ), once a suri has been crossed to a colombian, it is no longer considered a suri or a colombian. The 50% or 66% or whatever other percent don't really matter since it's still basically just a cross, so I don't think you would really be risking the worth of the offspring by breeding them to your unrelated colombian.

I get what you are saying, that they are not really suriname anymore...it's just that I've seen photos of 50% suriname albinos and they are quite distinct in appearence from 25% or columbian albinos...

I assume the normal appearing offspring would look more 'suriname' as well if both parents were 50% suriname.
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Heather J. Martin
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0.1 Solomon island ground boa, adult "Miss Boa"
0.0.1 Green anaconda, juvenile "Dot"
0.1 Burmese python, 10' "Molly"
2.0 '06 66% het kahl albino boas
0.2 '04 het kahl albino boas
1.0 '05 kahl albino boa

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>>I assume the normal appearing offspring would look more 'suriname' as well if both parents were 50% suriname.
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>>Heather J. Martin

Actually, there is no way to predict what the offspring will look like. 25%, 50%, they still have an equal chance of taking on the phenotype of either parent, or a mix of both looks making something that looks different than both.
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Richard Carew
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