Reptile & Amphibian Forums

A friend of mine has a pair of Bali yellow heads, 66% het for albino/lavender? what might he expect from a clutch from these?

Thanks,
Quig

That depends on if both of them are hets (66% chance for each of them). If they both are then 25% will be albino, 50% will be hets, and the rest will be normal. If no albinos are produced than chances are one or both of them arnt het, but the only way to tell for sure which one is or isnt a het is to breed it to a 100% het or homozygous albino.

Thanks, they are both 66% so maybe we git lucky. They're a bit small yet, but by next year they should be good ta go.

Quig

Well you could get albinos, but they won't be bali's, I can tell you that much. There are no bali het albinos around, since you would have to breed a bali to a non-locale albino, until the first exporters find a naturally occuring albino animal on Bali. So breeding a bali to an albino would just make for normal non-locale hets, and thus destorying your locale bloodline.

Rob

Then obviously they were bred to a different locality retic. They are Bob Clark line so don't know how they came to be albino/lavender-yellowhead cross. Was just wondering what he would wind up with. Thanks

Quig