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hello evryone

whats the difrenc betwen 50% het and 100% het?
what would happen is i breed 50% het albino X 50% het albino. vs. 100% het albino X 100% het albino. would the 100% clutch be all albino and the 50% be 1/2 albino?
and whats the difrens betwen 50% het and 100% het
i dont know much about "het". can somone tell me about what it means or give me a web site telling me about it.

thank you for your time.

well with hets it either is a het or isnt. the end. the percentage is the chance for being a het, with 100% of course being a guarenteed het. the 50%, 66%...ect.. only means that it will have a 50% chance of being a het.

if u breed 2 100% hets you will (if the odds are right) get 1 albino 2 100% het for albino and 1 normal in a clutch of 4 eggs

100% means that both parents carried the Albino gene and although the baby didnt get Albino alleles from both parents to make it a visual morph, it would have to have gotten a least one, which means it carries the gene for Albinoism.

I still get confused when I try and explain it. It is because Albino is a recessive trait, both parents have to have the gene.

With a 50%, it means either that one or both parents were hets, and this means that the baby wasnt neccesarily given an allele for albinoism. It could have been given a normal gene from both parents, making it a normal? Although, in reality they are edither 100% or 0%, it is just a way of expressing the odds by saying they are 50%.

Easy huh?

It doesnt mean that both parents carried the Albino gene, you can have both parents with one allele (100% het X 100% het) and the babies can be Albbino, Het, or normal. OR (100% het X Normal) and the babies can be just Het or normal.

It nuts!

If you breed an albino to a normal, you will get all 100% hets.

If you breed a 100% het to a normal, 1/2 the clutch will be 100% het and 1/2 the clutch will be normal. All the babies would be considered 50% het, since you don't know which are het and which are normal.

If you breed 2 100% hets together, you should get 25% albino, 50% het and 25% normal. You obviously know what the albinos are. So 2/3 of the rest of the clutch would be het, all of the normal looking babies would be considered 66% hets.

These are only statistics, we all know the odds can go either way. We had a spider to normal clutch this year, out of 4 eggs we got one spider and three normals. Codoms are suppose to be 50%, but at least all 4 were female.

Hope this helps and doesn't confuse more.
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If i breed an albino to a normal thay will be 100% hets how meny will be albinos. and is it better to breed male albino to female normal or female albino ro mail normal?

An albino to a normal will be all 100% hets.

If you had a breedable albino female, Id breed her to something other than a normal male. Atleast plop $100 on a 100% het male. But maybe thats just me.

-John

If you breed a Albino to a normal you will get zero albinos. All the babies will be het for albino (0 het means they are het 50% means there is a 50/50 so statisticly if you have 4 eggs two of the babies will be het 2 normal) If you breed a albino to a het albino you will get albino offspring (you should you never know when they odds turn the tables on you). If you breed a het albino to a het albino you should get some albinos and some possible het for albinos this means some of the normal ones might carry the gene to make albinos while some of the normal looking ones will not. The 50% is just sayin out of the clucth the babies came from half of them will be het and half will not (again this is only statisticly speaking). Hope i helped more than adding to your confusion.
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B Sleeper

1.0 Chocolate Lab
0.1 ?? Normal Ball python (yet different)
1.0 04 Het Albino
1.1 06 Het Albino
1.1 06 Het Pied
1.0 06 Pastel
0.? 07 Pos Het Albino (Momma has not laid the eggs yet)

so 2 albinos male and female would make all albino babys?

and where can i buy an albino that wont break the bank

Yes albino x albino would make all albinos. I dont know where to find a good deal just gotta look around check the classifieds and the sponser sites im sure you can find a decent deal somewhere good luck.
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B Sleeper

1.0 Chocolate Lab
0.1 ?? Normal Ball python (yet different)
1.0 04 Het Albino
1.1 06 Het Albino
1.1 06 Het Pied
1.0 06 Pastel
0.? 07 Pos Het Albino (Momma has not laid the eggs yet)

whats a good breeder bloodline i can buy albinos from that arnt babys i would like to buy 2 adolt albinos

http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_intro.html

this helped me understand. there are 4 articles...each one gets more complicated but start with that page. hope it helps..
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1.1.0 white's tree frog- popeye, jack
0.1.0 southern painted turtle- ms.tortle
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