I personaly think that the Sharps and Moore Carmels are both types of T positive. Making the Paradigm a homozygous T positive type boa morph. Here is why..

When bred together you get a whole litter of visual T positive (looking boas) from 2 traits that are recessive in nature.

Now if you breed a paradigm to a sharp line of course you are going to get more sharp type looking albinos. I think the look of being more yellow or less may be polygenic at that point with the paradigm coming from both sharp and Moore carmel animals you could go one way or the other.

If you bred a paradigm to a het sharp you should get some sharp and some paradigm looking boas as well as 100% hets but the end result of the litter should be about 50% visual and 50% het (normal colored) Now we all know these numbers could go either way in reality you could get more hets, or more visuals.

If the paradigm's worked as being a visual double het then when a homozygous paradigm was produced you would be able to breed this animal to a normal and get a full litter of paradigms. I don't think that will happen, could just be me, but theres an opinion on it.

I think the paradigms are awesome looking and have exelent potential to make all types of sweet designer morphs, as well open the gene pool making it possible to make visual t positive boas from truly unrelated animals. I think this type breeding will make the strongest albino type lines there are.

I feel pretty good about that theory, and would be willing to pick up the normal colored "possible hets" if they are possible het prices.. But I'd hold on to them if I were Mike.
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