Hi Troy



great post as usual and thanks for taking the time to explain your thoughts this well.



Your thoughts about the term "Hypo" do fit to my opinion very well.

It will depend on the community of breeders of a species what they want to accept as being the right genetic background of a Hypo.

In leopard geckos - Linebreeding with less amount of black as possible

In Boas - dominant genetics with black speckling and normal colored eyes and no purple hue

In Ball pythons - recessive with a frozen gray look where the pure black should be displayed



So what will we accept???...I will go for every genetic trait that is dominant or recessive,

that reduces the amount of black but does not affect the pattern at all (because you could call a spider ballpython a hypo also )

or the syntheses of melanin



...and so we came to the Toffee Bellies



I prefer the 2nd of the statements.

My general understanding of paradox is not that the unusual animal is contradictory to all others of the same morph.

But that it has some parts that do not fit the morph or kind that this animal should be.

The purple belly- and eye color make them look like a kind of T plus albino (and rule out the Hypo term), but they also have these pure black spots.

To me those black spots are paradox to the T plus albino.

It´s nearly the same as with the Bananas and coral glows in ball pythons.
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