Most of the original albinos were bred from a WC amel "Egyptian" colubrinus. This albino Egyptian line was bred into the more orange "Kenyan" morphs to try and make more colorful albinos.

Later, the Barkers imported a WC albino sandboa (or two?) from Tanzania.

I think the two lines have been found to be due to the same allele and therefore have been interbred.

There are a few people still trying to preserve the original Egyptian line in snakes from the northern part of the range. Unfortunately, few colubrinus in captivity have good clean origin pedigrees.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

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