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Calico by Chad Fuchs. Absolutely insane.
One side of face is normal, the other albino
Mosaics by mike nearhoof
Also had a chance to see the pink panther anaconda hognose in person. I took pics w/ 2 cameras so must be on the other one.
That was super cool. It is almost patternless already.
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Thank you,
Kevin Rhodes
www.spiderhognose.com
http://www.freewebs.com/spreptile/index.htm
http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc314/lifesciences/?action=view¤t=09-09hognose001.jpg
That thing looks absolutely insane!!!
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Louie Chavez
looks hot!
do you know if at least one of the parents was a het for albino?
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Greetings from Berlin
Stefan & Raimo
I think het to het breeding.
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Thank you,
Kevin Rhodes
www.spiderhognose.com
http://www.freewebs.com/spreptile/index.htm
http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc314/lifesciences/?action=view¤t=09-09hognose001.jpg
It came from a het to albino breeding,it is truly insane
Brent
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Brent Bumgardner
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703.431.1776
Superconda Website
this is interesting
there is an genetic effect in humans, that is called "Mosaic". This effect is happend in about 1% of all births and it is random and not reproduceable. It doubles some chromosomes in random cells in the body. There are different types, for example the "Mosaik Trisomi 21" or the Pallister-Killian-Syndrom.
So some people guess that at least such high paradox animals are in fact hets with the mosaik effect. This way some cells will be homozygot for albino and can´t produce melanin.
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Greetings from Berlin
Stefan & Raimo
That "Calico" is simply amazing. Now that is a truly paradoxical animal! I wish I could have seen that in person.
Those Mosaics are really interesting too. It will be interesting to see how that trait progresses.
You gotta love the Pink Panther. A truly wonderful looking Anaconda and a definite sign of more awesome things to come! 
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Troy Rexroth
Rextiles
Kevin, the colors on the Mosaic look similar to the male I sent you. In person do they have that similar (color) resemblance?
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Chris & Alliey
Giantkeeper Reptiles Website
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Whoa! What's the story on the Calico? Is it one of a kind? I think it was Nick Mutton who explained a theory on reptile radio a year or so ago about visual paradoxing occuring as the result of conjoined embryos. He explained that when embyos conjoin perfectly they'd appear as two snakes mixed into one, when they conjoin imperfectly they'll appear as a two headed or two tailed snake. If that's the case with this snake, the calico would be an albino conjoined perfectly with a 66% het albino, and would breed as one or the other.
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Adam Schroeder
formerly "hogsandpythons"
It seriously looks like someone took a normal hog and an albino, split their faces exactly in half and then sewed one albino half and one normal half together!!! And then back from the head they made a quilt of normal and albino patches! haha that thing was INSANE to see in person!!!!
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