Het albino retic question

[millertime89]

Originally Posted by lady_bug87

Yea I may need that lesson after all....

Maybe I should start another thread I kind of hijacked this one....

But no need to stop now I guess (Wayne, Alesia you can move this to a new thread if you want I'm just too lazy to start another one)

So I have a normal male, he was sold to me AS a normal male no hets or anything but he's greenish. When I asked a breeder about it he said my normal *could* be the result of a clutch with other morphs in it which would mean it would be het for a gene that other siblings in his clutch would have been visual representations of... Right?

The only way to tell for sure would be to breed him out. But not knowing what he could be shmushed with how would I decide what to breed him to? (I'm not actually going to breed him I'm just working through a mental exercise) and then see what pops out

Normal what? BP? Boa? It could be a het, depending on what it's parents are, but without knowing what the parents are and without a massive breeding project and/or some serious luck there's no real way of knowing. Without knowing the parents its a total crapshoot what to breed it to.

If you have a het bred to a het you *should* get 25% of the offspring visuals, 50% hets, and 25% normals. The real problem there is you don't know which of the non-visual babies are hets, which is why you see possible hets (het to het makes 66% poss. het) listed for sale. The percents are fun to try and figure out.

[lady_bug87]

Originally Posted by millertime89

Normal what? BP? Boa? It could be a het, depending on what it's parents are, but without knowing what the parents are and without a massive breeding project and/or some serious luck there's no real way of knowing. Without knowing the parents its a total crapshoot what to breed it to.

If you have a het bred to a het you *should* get 25% of the offspring visuals, 50% hets, and 25% normals. The real problem there is you don't know which of the non-visual babies are hets, which is why you see possible hets (het to het makes 66% poss. het) listed for sale. The percents are fun to try and figure out.

Yea its my BP

Thanks Kyle. I am not set up for such a project though he's just my cooky BP I was using him as a thought experiment to test my understanding of how hets work

[reptileexperts]

Originally Posted by millertime89

The real problem there is you don't know which of the non-visual babies are hets, which is why you see possible hets (het to het makes 66% poss. het) listed for sale. The percents are fun to try and figure out.

read my previous post about hets ;-)