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29.04.09 our young female of Sharp strain albino gave birth to 19 babies and their father is male albino T+ Max Caramel(Also known as Blond albinos in Europe. First time we breed them in 1996. Their parents were normal colambian boas (Boa constrictor), they appeared to be T+ albino heterozygots.). It was her first of child-bearing time and she wasn't paired to other males. All the babies had the same phenotype. They aren't similar to paradigm. They looks like T+ Max caramel, but with new color shade. All these babies have light tongues like T+ albino boas.
Two weeks ago the second female Sharp strain albino was paired to Hog island x Sharp srain albino male. She had lots of unfertilized eggs and six boas(3 albino and 3 heterozygots). And when I looked at heterozygot's tongues I noticed that they are black as the normals have.
Now I'm waiting for young boas to shed, and then I will look at them more attentively.
Sergey Prohorchik.

Great news! I will be looking forward to photos after the babies shed.

Off the top of my head, I can think of two explanations for these babies. Either they are paradigms but look different because of age or because of variation in coloration between your parental stock and Mike Weitzman's stock. Or this T max caramel is a fourth mutant gene in the sharp albino series. Or there might be another reason I haven't thought of.

Best of luck with the babies!

Paul Hollander

Young boas began to shed. I want to wait untill all of them shed. Now more new photos. There two scanned images from old photographs: CB 1996 - the first Max Caramel from phenotypically normal heterozygots (T albino/siblings - 1/3) and CB 1999 - litter from female Max Caramel and her father(T albino/normal het - 1/1).
Sergey Prohorchik.

Because of imageshack we lost important photo.
There is a missing photo from my first post.
Sergey Prohorchik.

15.05.09 the T+ Max Caramel beared babies. She was paired with two males Hog Island x Sharp albino. There were born 13 babies and 13 unfertilized eggs.
As I predicted the babies phenotypes were different. But the most important thing that one of the babies is the typical analogue of Paradigm. If we count unfertilized eggs there would be more babies like this.
Why the scission is so strange?
We work with our line 13 years. And my version about this scission is that maybe T+ Max Caramel has two T+ albino genes. I think so because lots of years I see the birth of lighter boas inside the T+ Max Caramel line.
But may be it's something else.
I think there will be more surprises with the selection of this line.
With best wishes
Sergey Prohorchik.