Well I guess its only fair for you to question my knowledge on the subject since I questioned your methods of breeding. I've been breeding/keeping reptiles for as long as I can remember. My very first snake was a wild caught eastern hognose when I was 8. I learned about genetics at a very early age cause I grew up on a farm. Of course I know genetics varies from one animal to the next. But one thing remains the same when it comes to every albino animal that has more then one line that are incompatible with each other. Mix it up, and eventually your not going to be able to tell the difference. And then what do you label your animal as when your selling it to someone else? "Pink.. no wait.. orange.. oh darn I'm not sure.. so lets just call it a new morph" why cause you cant tell any more~ You said so yourself, its been done, with other lines of albino, and the proof is in the pudding, after a while, you wont be able to tell which is an orange and which is a pink (for example) coming out of those eggs. Why is that a bad thing? Well say I wanted to breed one of these "double hets" of yours to another morph that's het for albino. Well when those eggs hatch, how am I suppose to know which albino line took to that snake I bred it to? You said that you can tell the two apart easily, but can you tell hets apart? Then you'd be stuck with the issue of labeling it as a "possible this and possible that" who wants to buy something that they possibly don't know what it is? Also its already been done. You said "how are we suppose to find out?" Well I'll tell you how, when the pink pastels popped up, of course people bred them to other albinos to find out that they wasn't compatible and indeed a new line of albinos.
The bottom line is, you can get defensive and ask all your buddies to come have your back and agree with you all you like, but its your future in breeding that your screwing up not mine.

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