As you may remember I have an dirty looking girl - I've never considered her an IMG because 1. I never saw her change and 2. when I got her at 250 grams she was already "dirty" and from what I gathered IMGs didn't really change until much later.



Anyway ...



My son had her out yesterday and asked what would happen if we bred her into our albino project. My first thought was that we'd have something similar to the Blushing Albinos that we have been seeing - I think I even commented on the first Blushing Albino thread that it looked like the albino version of an IMG.



But then my son started me a thinkin' - if the IMG increases the amount of melanin produced, why could it not make an animal that did not produce melanin - start producing melanin? Or maybe because of the albino gene instead of producing more black melanin - it would end up producing more white scales and white out the snake.





Which then brought about my second question - what (if any) other morph could this morph be paired with - and I came up short - it just didn't seem like there was a morph this could really enhance.



So then I posed the question to those of you that have far great knowledge in these matters than I.



I certainly appreciate everyones theories - thanks for sharing!!!




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Tosha



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