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I have a pair of albinos, next year they will be ready to breed and i was wandering if there will be problems in the offspring due to genetic factors. The animals are from two different and unrelated bloodlines.

Thank you for any advice.

Flavio

There shouldn't be any problems... the offspring should all be albino.

as long as your sure they are different blood lines and not siblings. then yes you are fine. good luck breeding them.
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to another albino? Why not put a pied on her and make double hets? They are more in demand and will yeild you better prices. You can put any recessive on her and make your whole clutch DH's. You could also put any co dom on her and make co dom's 100% hets, and 100% hets. Unless you are a big albino fan, go for it. The future is DH, TH, and so on. Just food for thought.

Raj
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with info that is somewhat rumor. Over the years I have heard that this is not a good breeding, low fertility, low hatch rate, etc. As usual, a couple of forum trolls responded trying to slam my post. None of them had actually done this breeding. I haven't really followed up with the debate. No attempt on my part to get more stats about this, either way. My plan is to continue doing like other breeders I know. I breed albino to het and not albino to albino. I would like to hear or see replies to this post from individuals that have actually done this breeding this year. No interest in hearing about their buddy or friend did this or that. So if anyone bred albino to albino this year, what were the results? How many eggs? How many hatched? What problems if any do the hatchlings have?

I have a clutch of six eggs in the incubator now from an Albino to Albino breeding. The clutch is due to hatch in less than 10 days. The eggs look perfect and I expect 6 perfect little Albinos to emerge. I will update you soon.

Not that I am an expert, but I never heard of any problems with breeding albino to albino. I have heard spider to spider may produce wobbly heads or is a lethal combination, I can't remember which now.

For albinos, I don't think there is any issue, especially with unrelated bloodlines.

However, there are two versions of the albino gene (or more possibly) Something like T and T- which I don't think are compatible with each other. But, offspring will be all normal, het for the other version of albino (or het for both, brain isn't working genetically right now and don't feel like making up a punnet square). I only real heard about the two forms of albino while reading McCurley's book (the complete ball python) and he talked about it briefly in there...

Sooooo in conclusion, if you have the same sort of albino gene in your two albino ball pythons, you should get a nice clutch of albinos. Unless they have hidden compatible hets.

Using the money selling the babies towards buying other morphs or hets, can certainly expand your breeding projects, but work with what you love, that is important. If you love the albinos and want to work on cleaning it up or getting a new variation, go for it.
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PHLdyPayne

I would also like to hear from breeders who have experience in this area. I do know from working with other types of animals and fish that pairing albinos can lead to issues related to size, fertility and vigour. However, my personal opinion is that these issues have more to do with line-breeding and in-breeding. I'm not opposed to either, but you have to know your lines, and be prepared for the consequences. Both practices will bring out the best and the worst qualities in the gene pool.

I have Heard of problems with Albino X Albino breeding and most won’t do it ,they prefer to go with Albino X Het Albino and produce bigger and brighter clutches . I have not bred two Albinos together as yet but intend to in the up comeing session , So I guess we will find out what happens together . David of DS Reptile Rescue