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My female albino KSB just dropped a litter of 10 babies last night. Of those 10, 4 are Anery. This threw me for a loop as the males she has been around were all normal.

So would this make her het for anery and the male that bred her het for anery also? Would the anery babies be het for snow? What are the genetics of the normal looking babies(besides obvious het albino)?

Now to get a little deeper, if I breed the anery babies back to each other, what would I get from the offspring? Snow, albino, anery????
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Mike C
MClark202@insightbb.com

id say you had a het anery male and your albino female was het anery as well. breed one of the male anery babies back to mom and you should get some snows, anerys, albinos and double hets.
Mark

Yes, in order to have anery offspring (since it is a simple recessive mutation) both parents must be at least hets.

The anery babies you produced are 100% het for snow....since a parent is visual albino, they are hets for albino for sure.

The genetics of the normal looking babies is that they are 100% het for albino, and 66% chance of being het for anery (possible double het).

If you breed the anery babies back to EACH OTHER, 1/4 of the offspring will be snows and the other 3/4 will be anerys that are 66% possible het for albino.

Breeding one of the anerys (het ablino) back to your albino mother will produce an equal 4 way split of snows, anerys, albinos, and 100% double hets.

Clear as mud?
Also, this is assuming that all babies in this liter come from the same genetics.

Thanks, that's pretty much what I had thought. Looks like my best bet will be to try a male anery baby next year back to his mom then try pairs of the anery babies in 2 years(assuming they grow as fast as my other sand boas).
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Mike C
MClark202@insightbb.com