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Old 03-03-16, 09:19 AM   #8
Andy_G
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Re: Tangerine Honduran

100%het is the result of an albino being bred with either a normal or an albino.

Albino x albino = all albinos
Albino x normal = 100% hets
Albino x het albino = albinos and 100% het albinos
Het albino x het albino = 66% possible het albinos (2/3 of the offspring should be hets)
Het albino x normal = 50% possible hets (1/2 of the offspring should be hets)

As far as the darkening (usually called "tipping" in milk snakes) it would have much more to do with lineage and how clean the parents are and not the specific genes that the individual is carrying. Clean adults tend to produce clean babies. Albinos can have white tipping as well, so albino does not always constitute clean lineage nor would the albino gene be solely responsible for cleaning up a line of it's tipping.

You'll find with hondurans as well as the other larger central american milksnakes (ecuadoran, andean, and costa rican black) that they will spend most of their time on the cooler side of the enclosure and they don't need access to anything over 85 for a hot spot. They like it cooler.

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