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I recently acquired 1.1 100% Het Albino both indirectly from Bob Clark. THe Female is a yearling and I was curious as too know around what size is she able to breed, right now shes about 8-9 feet still on the slender side and shes pounding adult rats like no other. The male is an 11 ft 30 lb bunny eating machine and is old enough and big enough to breed so im not worried about him.

With the hets, they are 100% hets both have been verified (as no papers were produced due to they were bought at shows and no recepit was printed) What would the babies that aren't albinos be? Would they be just 100% het's? I was under the impression the whole clutch should be albino, but if that doesn't happen what then?

What should there temps be when cycling for breeding, I have them at 87ish on the hot end and 80 on the cool end now.

Any and all information is appreciated, Thank you in advance.

Pat

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Hey Pat. Congrats on your retic acquisition. I have 2.2 of mine own of a couple different morphs and hets. It sounds like your female is putting on size nicely, so she may be able to breed next season. However, it seems like most keepers get their females to breed when they are 3 years of age. Some are lucky enough at 2, some wait until 4 or more, but 3 seems to be the average. It sounds like your male is definitely ready.

As far as their genetics and expected offspring, it seems you are mistaken on one aspect. The whole clutch will not be albino. According to generic averages, only 25% of the clutch will be albino, another 50% will be definite hets, and the remaining 25% will be normals. However, since you can't visually distinguish hets from nonhets, all normal looking babies will have to be considered 66% possible hets, since they have a 2 in 3 chance of being hets. It is for this reason that you may want to consider contacting Mr. Clark to try to get paperwork on them, as any potential customers would probably want to know the background of their snakes with some certainty.

Since I haven't yet bred my own retics, I'm not going to comment on cycling as I feel I am unqualified to do so, but hopefully some of the other forum members can come on and give you some tips based on their techniques. Best of luck with your animals! Retics are King!
-Chance
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Chance Duncan
2.2 Retics (1.0 Tiger Het, 1.0 Lavender, 0.1 Dark Lavender, 0.1 Normal Het)
1.1 Olive Pythons
1.1 Ball Pythons (Het Albino)
http://www.rivervalleysnakes.com

Thanks, and as far as the papers with Mr. Clark, i was considering getting the papers but Im not sure if i really need them, He verified them both and if the person im selling them to has a question they can contact the parties before me that they have come from and then Mr. Clark. If thats how the genetics work for 100% hets why is it that when an albino retic is bred to a normal female all are 100% het? WIth the 100% hets it works like this then: 1/4 is albino, 1/2 is 100% het and 1/4 is normal?

Thanks Pat

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