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in the past when you have bred albinos together out of your clutch what was your albino to het ratio did you get all albinos or did you get albinos and hets i know punnet squres are not 100% thats why im asking

An albino ball python carries 2 recessive genes for albino. One it got from mom, and one from dad.
If it is bred to an albino, which carries the same 2 recessive genes, the babies will carrie 2 recressive albino genes, making them ALL albino.

so does that mean that some albino genes can conflict with each other so what would i have to do to keep the albino line going not switch up partners

I'm by no means an expert, but it is my understanding that if you breed 2 Albinos together, you will get ALL albinos in the clutch... After that, I'm not sure.. I think if you breen an albino to a Het for albino, you should by odds get 50/50? correct?

end yourself...

As long as you keep mating albino to albino, all the babies will be albinos. You can change from one male to a different male or from one female to a different female. But as long as both are albinos, they will still produce all albinos because the albino gene is the same in all albino ball pythons, as far as I know. However, caramel albino and albino are different genes, so you have to be a little careful when listening to what the sellers say.

Every so often people say they mated two albinos and got normals. But they really mated an albino to another animal which was lighter than normal in color because of a gene other than the albino mutant gene.

Paul Hollander

What is your source for saying regular albino and caramel are different genes? I know that's the general assumption and may well be correct but I'm wondering if you have heard of someone actually breeding caramel to albino to put it to the test yet. I have this theory they might be alleles.

http://joepociaskpythons.tripod.com/start/genetics.htm

this site has some of the best info with charts to make it easier to see and understand.
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Misty Sprouse Ball Pythons

if i bred pastel ghost x pastel ghost theoretically what would my offspring

Statistical result:
1/4 homozygous pastel (aka super pastel) ghost
2/4 heterozygous pastel (aka pastel) ghost
1/4 ghost

Paul Hollander