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Well I recently aquired two baby columbians from somebody at a local reptile society, I didn't get to go into much detail with him, but I was wondering what my possibilties were with these two. Both are anery's in appearance.

My male is from a Anery 66% het snow to a Snow.
My female is from an Anery het snow to Anery het snow

Please excuse my redundancy, I'm sure you guys/gals get this all the time, but genetics isn't a strong understanding of mine. So I guess my question is what are my possibilites from breeding these two. What If I get a 1.1 albino's and swap them out? Thanks in advance to anybody who responds.

Rudy

Male is a anery 100% het for albino aka het for snow The female would be anery 50% poss het for snow. Breed them together and you could get snows and anerys poss het for snow if the female proves to be a het, if shes not a het then you will get all anerys poss het for albino.
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True Redtails

If I understand you correctly both your boas are anery with a 66% chance of being het for snow. If that is the case a pair of albinos guaranteed het snow or poss. het snow would be a good idea. All babies produced by breeding the albinos to the anerys would be 100% het snow, and you could get lucky and produce some snows(I am biased though, because I have albino poss hets for sale LOL.) Craig

My bad, reread your post, noticed the one is 100% het snow, you really do need some albino poss. hets. LOL

From your info:

Male is Anery 100% het for albino (snow).
Female is Anery 66% het for Albino (snow).

Which means if bred together, two possibilities:

1. Female proves to be het for Albino,
25% of the babies would be Snows
50% of the babies would show Anery and be het for Albino
25% of the babies would show Anery and NOT be het for Albino.
or 25% of the babies would be snows,
the rest would be Anery 66% het for albino.

2. Female proves to NOT be het for Albino,
all babies would be Anery 50% het for albino.

for adding to what you have, the male is your better animal being 100% het. If you want to produce snows, I'd get a female Albino 100% het for Anery. If you want sunglows, I'd add a hypo het albino. if you want ghosts, add a hypo het anery.
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12.100 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

If those genetics are true, you found some genetically amazing animals (for pet shop boas). Your male (anery 100% het albino) has a market value of $1,200 - $2,000 and the female (anery 66% het. albino) from $400-$700. That's some serious money to be dropping on your way to pick up a feeder mouse for that one little guy who is not taking frozen/thawed yet. You're guaranteed snows by pairing your male with a female:

snow
anery het. albino
albino het. anery
DH snow
or the big money hypo DH snows

For your best return, I would shoot for an albino het. anery female. Keep your current female and maybe she will prove. Worst case, you get normals and anerys all 50% het. albino. Breeding him to a normal albino female will yield only albinos and normals all het. for anery. Good luck with them.

Phil Goss

the original post indicated they came from a "a local reptile society" not a pet store. I agree it would be quite surprising to find such boa's at a typical pet store.

100% agreed with your recomendation on Albino het anery (if you want snows).
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12.100 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

np