Hey FR,



I should hope that my post reads like I dont believe in magic , nor ghosts nor some elusive genetic mumbo jumbo.



What I described is simply how mutations happen, and how they can be brought together make some morph given the question I was answering. Thats not messy at all, its pretty simple.



There is nothing that can't be explained about why there are albinos. Its pretty simple genetics. Mutation happens, snakes with mutations meet up and produce an albino.



I disagree that albinos have occurred in unexplained ways. What albinos are they? What makes them unexplained?



As for selectively breeding away melanin, I think thats a matter of semantics. I would not call them an albino. For me an albino is a lack of melanin because of a simple recessive mutation and has predictable inheritance for a simple recessive. That way when people talk about albinos they are talking about the same thing and people who buy albinos know what to expect.



I agree that line breeding can reduce the amount of melanin, but thats not what the person was asking about.
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