I answered all your questions in the post above in my last post.

"And the handful of breeders that say these not so positive things all seem to be working with either the coral or lipstick line of sunglows."

I have no clue where you came up with this assumption but it has nothing to do with Sharp animals being pastel.

I personally like Kahl strain better, it has a ton of advantages over the Sharp line. Im not out to convert would be albino owners into Kahl fans, i am just speaking from my experience with the two bloodlines.

There are those that would like to make Sharp strain out to be the holy grail of albinos, which is simply not true in my opinon and from the respnse ive seen from this forum as well as the response, or should i say lack of response, i got from my recent attempt to sell some of these animals, it is apparant that I am not the only one that feels this way.

"Out of the 99% of het sharps that you have seen, were you saying they were all pastels or came from a pastel line?"

They were all very pastel looking, not from a known line of pastels. The way this could happen is when Pete first started his project the pastel trait was not yet defined, and more importantly, all Pete wanted to do was make more hets and albinos, I really doubt if he went to the trouble to hand pick animals with more color to breed his albinos to. At the point in time when Brian started his project, Pastels were already being produced by selective breeding for color and I am willing to bet my right arm, that Brain used a very nice animal in his first breedings and continued to do so in follwing breedings.

Another factor is that the first Kahl sunglows were produced with unrefined hypos where the Sharp line is starting out with much nicer hand picked animals. Better Hypos/Salmons make better sunglows.

Ok after all that has been said, i just want to make sure you foloow this one last thought. Selective breeding for color has added color to the animals we see today, not just simply adding the albino gene from either strain. Wether you would liek to admit it or not, there has been selective breeding going on for some time now with the Sharp stock that is on the market today. I think both strains have benefitted from the selective breeding done with other animals making Boas overall that look cleaner and have more color.

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