Albino Ball Python
peer reviewedTYRrecessive
Lacks black pigment, leaving yellow and white with pink or red eyes.
How it inherits
- One copy
- One copy shows nothing at all. The animal looks ordinary and is called a carrier, or “het”.
- Two copies
- Two copies, one from each parent, are needed before it appears.
Albino carrier × Albino carrier
Four ways the two can meet.
1 in 4het Albino
1 in 4het Albino
1 in 4Albino
1 in 4Normal
- het Albino50%
- Albino25%
- Normal25%
A pale box is an animal that shows the morph. These are the odds for each egg on its own, not a promise about a clutch.
What this rests on
A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph in the gene TYR.
What happens if you breed it
Every pairing involving Albino, worked out gene by gene — including what the clutch can be and anything documented about the animals it produces.