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I'm looking at buying an albino and despite the fact that I am not currently breeding, I am planning on it in the future. So the question is... male or a female? I currently have a pair of normals, and was thinking that a female albino would kill two birds with one stone for me, as I could breed my normal male to both of my females. But then I got to thinking, I could buy a male -save the extra $- and buy another female, and then breed the male to both my females, and then cross the F1's either to eachother, or back to the dad.

I used to breed show silkies, and in silkies certain colors are carried -and passed on- better by the genders. say if you bred a blue male to a splash female your blues will be more vibrant than if you bred a splash male to a blue female. Is this true for Albinos? Would I be better off getting one rather than the other? or is it just personal preferance?

Any input is appreciated!

-Madison

buy the female first and get her up to 1000 grams than buy your male and i would say by the time she is able to breed your male will be ready to breed as well. as far as getting a male than breeding them to your normals for me thats years and im kind of impatient!

I thought is was a "No No" to breed albinos to albinos. I was checking on the archive to try to find an answer before I posted and I came accross a post that said that basically they're all related. never heard this before...

you see I've got to fool myself -and my very obliging roomates- into thinking that I'll only be buying one snake so THAT just might work. because let's face it you can't have just ONE bp. and I can't have just ONE albino!

Thanks!

-Madison

you can breed albino x albino. i dont think there is any problems?

Here is what I would do.

If you do not HAVE to have an Albino right this second to look at, get yourself two 100% Het Albino females. Then, either buy a male visual Albino this year, anytime, or next year. The females need more time to mature and grow, so you should be able to buy the male a year later with no worries about not getting him up to size.

OR, if you must have an Albino now, get yourself the female visual and get yourself a Pastel Het Albino or Cinn Het Albino in the future.

It really depends on your plans and what you like.

For recessives I usually try to buy the female first (het or visual) grow her for a year and then pick up a male - or plan to buy a breeder size female when the male is ready -- but that can be expensive.

Some like to buy the pair together and then make hets or possible hets with the male while the female gets to breeding size.

I personally wouldn't waste a breeder size albino female on a normal male -- I'd pick up either a het male, visual male or a codom somewhere along the way.
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Tosha
JET Pythons

It depends on time and money. If both are open your options are less restricted. I started out with a male and just started breeding him to all the females I could find. That produced 100% hets from every breeding.
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Jay A. Martin
Jay Martin Reptiles

I picked up a great 06 high contrast female at an Aug 07 show, hold back that was for sale and at 4pm at a show the dealer was willing to negotiate. Breeding her to my double het albino x pied this year, hoping the luck of the world will also tell me my female albino also caries a pied gene! if not, just some wonderful albinos and a gagle of hets and normals, all of which I will be happy to raise.

End of story, visit a lot of shows and see if you can buy a yearling a couple hund more than a hatchling, I think its worth it and you skip some of the worries of rearing a snake.