I believe it was a breeder in the UK. He brought in some wild caught Colombian Albinos and bred them to his het Kahls.

You mention the Harliquins that ended up being het Albino, and some other breeders have had other things end up as hets, when there was no known albino history. I think this might just be that the mutation is relatively common. People sell possible hets, and even hets as normals, then there are the ones in the wild that are hets (if albinos are found, there have to be hets) but are not known. With all these variables it is likely to encounter Hets in breedings. The same has been shown with Anerys, T-Plus Colombians, even in Leopards and Bloods (John Berry's Blood het, and the multiple lines of Leopard in Europe).

I want to see the history of the Sharp Albino matriarch, as in collection data. There has to be some reason for not being compatible, and everything in captivity has been derived from ONE animal. Why no random hets with this mutation? Is it Colombian after all?

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