price question......

[beth wallbank]

hypothetically speaking........what is a 66% albino female hatchling worth? Does it help if its full brother sibling was an albino? She is approx. 550 gms now.

[beth wallbank]

Sorry........shes not really a hatchling anymore. shes a June 2003 baby

[Tim_Cranwill]

I'm not sure on the price but her brother being an albino means nothing. Her parents were both hets and hetXhet breeding means each egg/offspring has....
a 25% chance of being albino,
a 50% chance of being het and
a 25% chance of being normal.

All of her siblings could be normal or albino... either way, she is a 66% poss het because she "looks" normal and she's from hetXhet breeding. :)

[Jeff_Favelle]

Yearling 66%? Well, I'd say yearling CB normals are worth $200, so maybe $450-550 for a 66%. Depends on the size. If it 1000g, then cool. But if its like 200g, well, that would make it worth way less. As 100% hets are going to be about $1000. I'd say 66%-ers (hatchlings) are worth $300 right now. $250 later on in the year.

[RandyRemington]

It's not necessary that an albino was born in the clutch if you have trust in the breeder and his/her breeding stock being what he/she says it is. However, the visible het is reassuring that there wasn't a mix up or worse some where along the line. I bought a 66% het albino male once and the seller had a nice pic of the clutch coming out of the eggs in the hatching box. I could clearly pick my animal out and see the new hatched albino sibling also. Still not fool proof but very reassuring. Incidentally, that male did prove to be a het albino. The breeder could easily not have produced an albino sibling and my 66% could easily not have been a het without anything being amiss, just nice that it worked out.

[beth wallbank]

thanks guys. just wanted to know what fair market was before I spent money on an animal.