2006-09-27 04:44:33 · 8 answers · asked by alkalik1 2 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
A 100% Het Albino is the same thing as a Heterozygous Albino. The parents could have been Albinos, or they could be other hets and the offspring was proven as a het.
A Heterozygous animal is simply one that has only one gene of a pair that would make a certain characteristic. For an albino, they need two albino genes and the het only has one. If you mate it with an albino, you have a 50/50 chance of getting albinos. If you mate it with another het, you have a 25% chance of getting an albino, a 50% chance of getting more hets (Snakes that have one albino gene), and a 25% chance of getting a normal snake (no albino genes at all). The normal ones are considered 66% Het because you don't know which one is normal and which one is a het until you prove them out.
Check out this link for a graphic description of hets and genetics: http://ballpython.ca/what_get/recessive.html
Feel free to email me if you have more questions...
2006-09-27 07:02:36 · answer #1 · answered by xyz_gd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A 100% het. albino royal (ball) python has at least one albino parent. By breeding two 100% hets (heterozygous) animals, you will produce approximately 1 in 4 albinos. A heterozygous animal has different copies of the same genes for a recessive trait at the same locus. There is such a thing as 100% het, it just isn't provable without knowing the parents or breeding trials.
Chris
2006-09-27 06:31:21 · answer #2 · answered by cloreptiles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a Normal Ball python that has two albino parents. NO het is 100% though ... more like 75%.. either way I'm sure some biology nut can come explain that one to you...
basically if you breed a het albino with another ball python then you have a high chance of getting Albino offspring. Albino Balls are worth about $1200 today retail but that number is dropping steadily each year.. soon we will be able to get albino balls as easy and as cheep as the Burmese.
2006-09-27 05:58:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All it means is that the snake carries the albino gene. Which makes it more expensive... reason being that they are more likely to produce albino off spring. Realise however that this is not a guarantee
2006-09-27 07:12:28 · answer #4 · answered by kyisha17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that means that he is an albino royal python which has both parents were also albinos. he was breed to be an albino.
2006-09-27 06:02:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its a white snake - prob wont grow longer than 2.675 metres
2006-09-27 04:48:10 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm guessing it's a snake!
2006-09-27 04:47:01 · answer #7 · answered by Trix 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://www.planet-pets.com/snakpytn.htm
2006-09-27 15:30:49 · answer #8 · answered by teddi_bear505 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋