It won't hurt to ask....
could someone please tell me EXACTLY what does a
66% HET FOR ALBINOS....mean??? I've seen it in ads,but the ones i see dont look anything like the high yellow "albino"look i know. So what is this refering to?
Thanks
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May sound like dum question here but....
coreyfl
Jun 07, 2003 06:21 PM
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pinatamonkey
Jun 07, 2003 07:06 PM
A 66% het albino is a snake that has a 66% chance of being het for albino.
When you breed 2 het albino snakes together, the offspring would be
25% het albino,
50% het albino,
25% normal.
Since you cannot tell the hets and normals apart by just looking at them, all the normal snakes would have a 2/3 chance of actually being het, hence 66% hets.
50% hets are produced by breeding a het to a normal, where half the offspring would be normal, and half het, thus a 1/2 or 50% chance that a random offspring is het.
100% or just 'hets' are made when breeding an albino to a normal, or an albino to a het albino. In either case, all the normal-appearing offspring will be het.
PS - 'het' means heterozygous, since albino is a recessive gene, 2 copies of the gene are necessary for the snake to appear albino. A het animal only has one copy of the gene, so it appears normal, but is capable of producing albino offspring if bred to another snake carrying the albino gene.
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coreyfl
Jun 07, 2003 07:14 PM
Thank u so............... much for that info.
was driving me crazy 
I thought all you pros here would laugh at me for asking something like that.
Thanks
Bengkulu
Jun 07, 2003 10:21 PM
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That's what you think ;o)
Bengkulu
Jun 07, 2003 10:31 PM
(Since you cannot tell the hets and normals apart by just looking at them)
Thats what you think ;o)
This will be my last post here..I wish you all the very best.
bloggs
Jun 08, 2003 08:23 AM
so what does he mean? is there a way for telling het's apart from normals?
Simbo
Jun 08, 2003 09:01 AM
but I can't tell you anymore about it than that.
- Eric
beastie
Jun 09, 2003 10:56 AM
Jeff supposedly will tell you the secret, but umm....
the only time i've heard of this, the guy supposedly paid him $3,000 to tell him. this is all rumor, though... i have no real idea...
the only way to tell for sure is to wait and breed them to a known het or albino. that's the only way to tell for sure. unless you have a load of cash that you don't want to spend on snakes.... hahahaha!
bc
