I would never advise breeding siblings if at all avoidable. Most especially with the already-inbred morphs. In most cases most simple recessive based morphs are established or "created" by breeding offspring back to the homozygous parent (the parent that displays the visible morph trait). This short-cut method of breeding the parent back to its own offspring is much less severe inbreeding than breeding siblings together since each parent only shares half the genes with their offspring. But siblings share 100% of the same genes and breeding them together may lead to deformities or abnormalicies. Now, if you were asking about breeding siblings of a non-morph I would say it's less dangerous since they don't likely come from an already-inbred line. But virtually all morphs are already inbred and all possible routes/means to outbreed them should be practiced.

That pairing would result in 25% albino tigers, 25% albinos, 25% tigers het albino and 25% normals het albino.
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