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Well.. I bred an Albino male with a het for Albino female, and the results are kind of crazy. One Albino (female) two het. for albinos (females) and a pair of Axanthics! What!!! AXANTHICS!!!I was not expecting Axanthics. But, hey... I am not complaining at all... just confused...

Congrats!!! That's quite a bonus!!!!
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"Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only to what we know of it."

Congrats on the clutch! I am in no way trying to rain on the parade, but give them until after they shed and eat a few meals. Blushing Albinos look very similar to snows when they hatch. Het Blushing Albinos look like axanthics. After one shed, they already look different. After a few meals they look like every other normals. I just hatched a couple of clutches out myself. Either way, you have some killer animals. Hopefully your animals actually are Axanthics and you can get some real snows.
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Brandon Osborne Reptiles

I was going to say the same thing. Thanks for saving me the typing Branding.
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Best regards,
AlanColesReptiles

Hey thanks for the input... I do not look at it as though you rained on my parade at all. The genetics are quite interesting, to say the least. I guess... I need to research the blushing albino mutation. Either way, I do not think this is bad... do you? Its like a little bonus, or spice'n it up a little. Oh yeah... do have a pic of your blushing hets or the blushing albino?

you got it...blushed amels...the hets look like axanthic...for about a month ...then brown out....the blushed amels look like snows out of the egg, then yellow out in a couple sheds...sometimes one shed...the blushed amels as adults do have a little bit of a brighter sheen to them....I made a bunch over the last half dozen years or more....and people still paid me the same for them....2 bills....just like amels....it's a shame....

good luck....keep the blush females when you get some...you'll like them as adults anyways.....

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........JY

Someone who seemed to know what they were talking about posted a few years back that this was actually a completely separate gene from albino that just happened to be common in a particular albino line. As I understood it they were indicating it is some sort of really quick fading recessive axanthic and the "blushing albinos" really are a sort of snow and that some of the axanthic looking babies might not even be het albino (depending on parentage, although almost everyone uses at least an albino male now days).
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Randy Remington
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DRon thats crazy, going to work on snow now or what??
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Damian Macioce
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