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Any thoughts on what this might produce? If anything other than albinos and pied. Just passing time and this crossed my mind.
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Jay A. Martin

umm...pied albinos, normals, albinos, pieds should be produced from that pairing.

DH pied, albino x DH pied, albino:
25% het albino, het pied
12.5% albino, het pied
12.5% pied, het albino
12.5% het albino
12.5% het pied
6.25% pied albino
6.25% albino
6.25% pied
6.25% normal

condensed: out of 16 eggs, theoretically
---9 normal-appearing snakes, 66% het albino,
66% het pied, 44% het albino -and- pied, 88% het -something- (That could be off! )
---3 piebald 66% het albino
---3 albino 66% het piebald
---1 pied albino
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-audri
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Nobody really knows since no one has produced a double homozygous animal (at least no one is admiting it) You would THINK that you could produce pieds, albinos and albino-pieds with this combo but that would be assuming that the two traits are compatible. I find it strange that no one has produced these yet since these are two of the oldest mutations known for ball pythons. I believe that they were established even before the axanthics were (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) but we already have double homozygous albino-axanthic snakes, the snow balls. It makes me wonder if maybe the two traits aren't compatible? Or possibly no one has been working with them because they didn't think that a yellow and white snake with larger patches of white would be worth the time spent. Actually I think that an axanthic-pied would be more impressive looking then an albino-pied. Much more contrast. Or maybe even a pastel-pied. You could make one of those even quicker. I guess only time will tell. It makes for interesting speculation though.

Mark

>>Any thoughts on what this might produce? If anything other than albinos and pied. Just passing time and this crossed my mind.
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>>Jay A. Martin

I would think someone has tried by now. I too think an axanthic pied would look spectacular if they did not brown-out with age.

Has anyone tried?
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Jay A. Martin

Whoa! I was having this exact same conversation with my wife. It's like you just echoed exactly what I told her!

When breeding the DH Pied x Albinos back to each other you have a 1 in 16 chance of producing a homozygous Albino Piebald........like The Snow Ball and the Caramel Glow.........."the 1 in 16 snake".............and it will be done...........in the next three years we will see one.........either a Lavender Albino or an Albino Pied.

Ralph,

I'm glad you posted - I was just about to send you an email.

Thanks!
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Jay A. Martin