Back when I first got into ball pythons, I really wanted a pied but couldn't even afford a pair of hets. So I bought 2 male het pieds from a friend, bred them to normals and kept the girls. This year, I bred the daughters of one male to the other male, and vice versa. I have a total of 4 possible het pied girls, two for each male.
As some of you know, we have been maternally incubating this year. Our Het Pied x 50% Poss Het Pied eggs are at day 71 today and I moved mom slightly to peek at them. Well, she decided not to get back on the eggs, so I decided to cut them and put them in the incubator. So, all the babies look healthy,but the outcome was not at all what we were expecting. 7 babies look normal (there's a slight chance that one is a low white pied, but I'm almost positive it is normal). But baby #8 is an albino!!!!!
Soooo...now what? There are two possibilites as I see it...either there was some sort of mixup and the males I got were really het albino OR I have double hets. I'm really curious now...I got eggs from two other possible het pieds, and one from the sire of this clutch to a 100% pied from a different breeder. Obviously, if one of the normals turns out to be a low white pied, they are double hets...and if I get a pied from the 100% het pairing then at least daddy must be a double het. So any advice on proving out what I have is appreciated.
I got the het pieds with the goal of making double het albino pieds once I produced a pied...I really hope I am getting a head start...And, at least mom proved out to be het for something
