">Regarding hypos augmenting red, I disagree.

Then what causes the color difference between albinos and sunglows? Both lack all melanin."

The same thing that causes the color difference between a pastel albino and a normal albino. Reduce black in a normal then wave the albino magic wand and change it into an albino and it will have more contrast/color than if the black had not been reduced. Even though albinism lacks melanin, the amount of melanin that would have been present still effects the phenotype. Case and point: Look at the white rings in the tail splotches of albinos and sunglows. That is where black would have been. If you bred a boa with little to no black in its tail splotches into that albino line.. the results albinos down the road would have increased red in the tail splotches... not because red was increased but because melanin was decreased.
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