SPONTANEOUS MUTATION. I think this is what happened in your situation. We silly boa people understand basic genetics. We know that we "NEED" het. x het., albino x het., or albino x albino to make albinos. We like to believe that there are rules and that is the only way things can happen. We think we know all and everything can be explained. Therefore we think that somewhere out in the jungle two het. boas happened to find each other and produced the first albinos. This is not what happened. Somewhere in the wild two completely normal boas bred and produced an albino. The rest of the litter was not hets. and the parents were not hets. The first albino was SPONTANEOUS MUTATION. Now sunglows. Not spontaneous. We produced them in captivity. The first striped animal that was imported... SPONTANEOUS. Was the first motley imported? SPONTANEOUS. We know how motleys work. You need a motley to make motleys. You don't need hets. There were not two het. boas that created it. It was a spontaneous mutation. I think your animal will be genetic, but I don't think it will happen again from your breeders, and I don't think they are hets. I spoke to someone selling 66% T albino Argentines. He said they were possible hets. because the parents produced ONE T . The parents have had three good sized litters, and have produced 1 T . The parents are not hets. This was a spontaneous mutation as well. When you breed as many animals as we now produce, funny things happen. They happen in the wild as well, but noone is there to document it and those animals usually don't survive long enough to be discovered. My 3 cents.



Phil Goss

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