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This clutch was by a Tangerine hypo female poss. het/albino. She was supposed to breed with my Tangerine albino poss. het/hypo which didn’t work because he wasn’t quite ready. So I used a het/albino Male that was supposed to be a female. He’s a bright orange tri color. Anyways since I didn’t get any albinos I guess it’s safe to say that the mother turns out to be just a nice hypo. So I guess that would make these snakes het/hypo poss. het/albino.

Thanks for looking.
Jim Baptista

Hi Jim,
Thats a nice looking clutch there. Too bad you couldnt prove if shes het-albino or not-(there would have been some nice albinos in there) but they still look great, you got a nice variety color there, tri-colors, tangerines, and peach looking ones too. Thanks for the pics.
Jeff Teel

Thanks Jeff
I have seen people ask more than once what happens when you breed a tangerine to a tri color. Well theres my results, a few tangerines, tri colors and some In betweens. Im Still hoping for a ghost and couple more tri color hypos. Wish me luck.
Thanks Jim Baptista

Jim,

Just because you didn't produce any albinos in this clutch does not mean both parents aren't heterozygous. There is a 25% chance of any baby being albino, 75% of being normal. It looks like you produced 8 babies there.

The probability of producing 8 normal babies from a pair of hets is therefore 0.75 x 0.75 x 0.75 x 0.75 x 0.75 x 0.75 x 0.75 x 0.75 = 0.10 or roughly 10%. Therefore 10% of the time a pair of hets could produce an 8 snake clutch of normals. Or, you could say you are 90% sure that your female is not a het, but not 100% sure.

Just thought I would crunch the numbers for you.

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Chris Harrison

Thanks Chris for those numbers. I was also thinking since the male was supposed to be a female, I suppose it's possiable the genetics could be wrong also. Just graspin
Thanks again
Jim Baptista