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Newbie question. I just got my first Burm, I have ATB's also. I am new to burms and am wanting to learn everything I can. SO here goes:

I bought a 66% HET for albino Burm from a breeder. He has more than one left, but if I have two that are 66% HET for albino is there any possible chances I can get some albino;s when breeding?

I thought about this before and thought it was impossible, but I just ran it through my head and somehow I made sense that it was possible....i dunoo.

ooohhh,.. tough call with a LOT of variables. For one, 66% het may sound like good odds,.... but it really isn't. If only one were actually het and the other was normal, you would get all normal looking babies and a very low het count, but not know which are hets. Furthermore, you would not know which parent was het, IF one was het. The only way to know is to breed a 66% het to a 100% het or to an albino. Then, when bred to a 100% het, if you get roughly 25% albinos,.. the 66% is truly a het. If you breed a 66% het to a full on albino then you will get roughly 50/50 if it is truly a het. It's a crapshoot and I would not bother with 66% hets unless your worst-case scenarios are still a win win. Like a granite burmese, 66% het albino bred to an albino granite. If it ends up being just a granite then you'd still get high dollar granites het for albino. See?

>>Newbie question. I just got my first Burm, I have ATB's also. I am new to burms and am wanting to learn everything I can. SO here goes:
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>>I bought a 66% HET for albino Burm from a breeder. He has more than one left, but if I have two that are 66% HET for albino is there any possible chances I can get some albino;s when breeding?
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>>I thought about this before and thought it was impossible, but I just ran it through my head and somehow I made sense that it was possible....i dunoo.
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thank you for the quick thought out reply. appreciated.

i think i get where you are going.

In order to get albinos out of a 66/66 breeding, both snakes actually have to be het. The odds of this are .66 * .66 or about 44%. So you have

- a 44% chance of getting the normal distribtion for a het/het breeding (which would include an average of 25% albinos)

- a 56% chance that one or both animals are normals, in which case, no albino offspring.

Hope this helps.

i thinik i understand that one more.

thanks a lot.

joel