I've seen a few animals that exist with pink eyes and leucism. I dont understand the combination. Can someone please break it down for me?
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Tom
TCJ Herps
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Pink eyed leucistic.......
guttersnacks
Feb 24, 2005 08:29 PM
Replies (3)
Randall_Turner
Feb 25, 2005 05:33 PM
It would be a Homozygous form of albino and leucistic.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
guttersnacks
Feb 25, 2005 07:44 PM
Thanx for the repsonse. So is this a particularly hard trait to produce? It seems to get a lot of attention.
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Tom
TCJ Herps
"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"
Randall_Turner
Feb 27, 2005 07:32 PM
A double recessive trait in one animal is a 1 in 16 chance per neonate to end up with both being homozygous. You have to breed the albino to a leucistic, then a pair of the double het albino leucistic to double het albino leucistic (similar to snow boas or snow ball pythons). The difficulty in producing it would be dictated on the average clutch size. A smaller average clutch size ends up with a smaller number to hopefully hit the 1 in 16 odds in atleast one of the offspring.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
