Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Hello, we just hatched 8 babies that are 50% poss het albino. Every one of them has a striped tail like the mom. So I am guessing it is either a dominant or co-dominant trait. They all have dots down their backs as well. Now I'm wondering if I can get a "super stripe" by breeding them together! Better yet, a super stripe albino. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks

web site

-----
Mark Kennedy Reptiles

Here's another one

-----
Mark Kennedy Reptiles

sorry to burst your bubble...they are very pretty though.

Jared Horenstein

To say it is not genetic is just talking out the side of your neck. To claim it as "not genetic" proves that you don't understand genetics at all. The number of traits that could be chalked up to genetics would be much MUCH longer than that of "freak" occurrences (like ringers). What you mean to say is that it is a very common trait, and that it does not fetch any sort of premium from knowledgeable consumers.

Yes almost all the balls here have striping on their tails, just kind of weird that they all look almost exactly like each other with the dots down their backs. No bubbles burst here, caramel eggs coming soon! hehe thanks
-----
Mark Kennedy Reptiles

.

and all that other stuff you said..

Jared

I think the other Sparke303's point may have been that most everything is genetic, including normal patterns. Normal balls have normal patterns because the normal genes tell them to have those patterns. Something can be genetic without being a simple genetic mutation. It would be interesting to see how closely genetically identical twins patterns matched to know how much detail is genetic vs. how much is chance in the incubation environment.

I have noticed that several of my Albinos have that stripe on their tails. Here's a couple of examples for you. I would keep and raise all of those females if I were you!!!

Talk to you later,
Oz

-----