There is another rather well known boa breeder that used this same phrase to describe the "calico" animals...(I certainly don't mean any offense to you Ed,or to him in making this statement,but I feel it needs to be addressed.) This is simply an incorrect assumption. heterozygous albinos DO NOT have homozygousity hiding somewhere below the exterior trying to "bust through" like light from beneath a painted light bulb...I just had to address this particular misconception,because when I first heard it I really couldn't believe that anyone that makes a living manipulating genetic anomolies could actually think this was an acceptable theory.I'm not opposed to trying to explain the elusive,but I think that there are a great many people in this hobby/business that simply don't truely understand genetics.(that's my "theory" anyway! ) there are homozygous albinos that are defective,or best described as "incomplete" because of a biochemical failure in the amelanistic gene expressed in that particular individual,or individuals.("paradox examples." )but, there are no "hets with the albino showing through." *LOL*
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