But how many albino X albino and pied X pied breedings do you hear about? I did see a pied X pied breeding posted here and I believe the original breeding to prove the morph was pied X pied but it was years and years before I finally saw a post of a pied female on eggs. And pied was proven long before leucistic.

I think a number of things are going against this:

1. It takes a long time to grow a female ball up to produce eggs. Sure some people have managed to do it quickly but it might be more typical for a female to be 3 or even 4 years old before producing the first time. Leucistics haven't been around all that long, I would expect there to be very few breeder sized females already.

2. The few people who might have adult female leucistics (believe RDR's first few where males) are the big breeders who aren't likely to post every clutch.

3. I think there really is an attraction to crosses to produce the next big thing rather than more predictable breedings. Even albino X albino doesn't seem to happen as much as you would expect for such a long established morph where there should be a lot of adult female albinos out there. Often it seems the morph females are used for some sort of cross.

As far as there being anything wrong with them, I doubt it. A few years ago I would have said absolutely not, we would have heard about it by now. But after spider and caramel problems went so long before going public I suppose anything is possible but hopefully someone will soon have a leucitic X leucistic clutch to post and put this to rest.

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