If I had found an pair of albino kennerlyi, I would without a doubt breed them together to make more albinos. That is a no brainer. I would also take that albino male and breed him to a couple of normal wild type females and produce myself a bunch of hets to work with as well to help prove the inheritance in that same season. As you both know, males are fully capable of, and will breed a few females per season. I am able to get males and females up to good breeding condition in a year so those hets would be bred to eachother the next season. I would also take a visual and breed it to a het to help prove the genetic inheritance even further. There is indeed a widely accepted process to proving out inheritance. It is done this way with snakes and lizards in our hobby all the way up to in a lab when trying to figure out the mode of inheritance for other animal and human genetic diseases and disorders.

Frank, the fact that you found 2 or more axanthics to start your proving out process is amazing and puts you in a position that any deli cupper, including myself, would dream about.

I don't think that anyone is questioning why you bred the two axanthics together. Like I said, that would be a no brainer. My only question to you is.... What do you have against hets? Hahaha... I only ask because you specifically stated that you did not want to produce them.

I am in no way trying to take anything away from what you have done here Frank. It is a truly remarkable event and you did what you set out to do.

Another question I have is, can you come up with a rough percentage of axanthic kennerlyi in that area? It is very interesting to me that a recessive gene can be so plentiful. I know the genes can "survive" in het form pretty easily. I wonder how many animals in that area are actually het for the axanthic gene if there are so many visuals. I think you can take this a lot further Frank.

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