I will say a couple more things and then bow out of this thread as you clearly are being antagonistic.

You claim that you are not curious as to why this happens, but this is obviously not true, as you have done repeat breedings and held back animals, even if its a "dinker" project, you wouldnt persue it unless you were at least curious.

Some of us then simply tried to explain what is almost certainly going on and get hostile. I am sorry if the likley expalanation is less than magical or somehow dissapoints you. These things are not as mysterious as poeple tend to make them.

You obviously want to understand whats going on, so your hostility is a little baffling here.

Laslty you this phenomenon occurs in every species and not just in albinos. Paradoxes tend to breed as what the dominant phenotype is, wich in your case is HET albino.

I have a paradox pastel I hatched last year and I have seen and examined probably 2 dozen of them, including examples in other species that incliuded a few colubrids and even a tree boa.

This is not even a particularily rare occurrence.

Nick

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• Interesting Paradox breeding results - Candoia1, Wed May 5 23:04:08 2010
• RE: Interesting Paradox breeding results - thunderpaws, Wed May 5 23:10:30 2010
• RE: Interesting Paradox breeding results - Quality_Snakes, Thu May 6 01:50:35 2010
• RE: Interesting Paradox breeding results - candoia1, Thu May 6 14:40:15 2010
• Chimeras and Clutches - Bolitochrome, Thu May 6 16:56:56 2010
• RE: Chimeras and Clutches - Candoia1, Thu May 6 17:55:18 2010
• Punnett squares. - Bolitochrome, Thu May 6 21:23:36 2010
• RE: Punnett square: Image - Bolitochrome, Thu May 6 21:25:24 2010
• Wrong image posted - Sorry. - Bolitochrome, Thu May 6 21:28:14 2010
• RE: Wrong image posted - Sorry. - Candoia1, Thu May 6 23:04:42 2010
• Not theory - Bolitochrome, Fri May 7 07:21:19 2010
• RE: Interesting Paradox breeding results - Bolitochrome, Thu May 6 09:48:06 2010
• RE: Interesting Paradox breeding results - candoia1, Thu May 6 14:31:42 2010
• RE: Interesting Paradox breeding results - Pitoon, Thu May 6 15:42:26 2010
• RE: Interesting Paradox breeding results - Candoia1, Thu May 6 16:19:54 2010
• RE: Interesting Paradox breeding results - Pitoon, Thu May 6 16:33:02 2010
• pics online..... - Pitoon, Thu May 6 17:25:31 2010
• RE: pics online..... - candoia1, Thu May 6 20:13:58 2010
• RE: pics online..... - zippy00_99, Mon May 10 16:45:55 2010
• Thank You, chime what ? Multi-recessive! - Watever, Thu May 6 19:45:23 2010
• Proven Chimeras - Bolitochrome, Fri May 7 07:28:34 2010
• RE: Proven Chimeras - EZGator, Fri May 7 10:43:02 2010
• RE: Proven Chimeras - Candoia1, Fri May 7 11:43:28 2010
• YOUR SNAKE IS NOT AN ALBINO!!!! - inlandreptile, Fri May 7 12:14:46 2010
• Mosaic MONOSOMY - inlandreptile, Fri May 7 12:30:40 2010
• RE: Mosaic MONOSOMY - Coldthumb, Fri May 7 14:09:40 2010
• RE: Mosaic MONOSOMY - Paul Hollander, Fri May 7 15:09:38 2010
• RE: Mosaic MONOSOMY - candoia1, Fri May 7 23:12:34 2010
• RE: YOUR SNAKE IS NOT AN ALBINO!!!! - candoia1, Fri May 7 22:59:30 2010
• RE: YOUR SNAKE IS NOT AN ALBINO!!!! - inlandreptile, Sat May 8 01:13:26 2010
• RE: YOUR SNAKE IS NOT AN ALBINO!!!! - Candoia1, Sat May 8 02:52:03 2010
• RE: YOUR SNAKE IS NOT AN ALBINO!!!! - inlandreptile, Sat May 8 12:19:23 2010
• RE: YOUR SNAKE IS NOT AN ALBINO!!!! - Candoia1, Sat May 8 12:58:09 2010
• explanation - inlandreptile, Sat May 8 18:29:53 2010
• RE: explanation - Candoia1, Sat May 8 23:07:18 2010
• RE: explanation - Paul Hollander, Sun May 9 12:31:23 2010