albino x albino can be done, and Jay is correct, the litter will be 100% albinos. Unless of course you mix different strains of albino, (kahl x sharp) then you would get normal looking babies that are 100% Double-het for both strands of albino.

Assuming that you have 2 Kahl strain albinos, breeding them together should make all albino babies. However, most breeders prefer not to breed Albino x albino, instead most would rather breed albino x het, or het x het.

The reason nobody wants to breed albino x albino, they say albino is a very "weak" gene. I'm not exactly sure how to define this, but my intake, grant it I may be wrong, makes them more susceptible to diseases. I'm assuming somehow an alteration of the immune system being passed on. I've seen plenty of albinos with 1 eye, no eyes, etc. So in that sense, I've seen first hand the "weakness" of the gene, but I cannot really define it very well.

Hope this helps, maybe someone can elaborate a little more?

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• Breeding Albino Boas - Cobra7, Thu Dec 1 04:57:47 2005
• RE: both your posts - jayf, Thu Dec 1 17:00:26 2005
• RE: Breeding Albino Boas - NUCCIZ_BOAS, Fri Dec 2 16:10:48 2005
• RE: Breeding Albino Boas - Cobra7, Sat Dec 3 10:03:13 2005
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