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We produced this male earlier this year. He started out with a section of jet black in middle of body, which has now expanded to head, tail and other parts. It will be interested to see if this is genetic and to what extent black expands. Any thoughts on this would be great! Steve

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Could just be a birth defect...But nice looking snake...

Maybe he is painted also, but thanks

Our original male Caramel is a paradox as well. Interesting to see if there's some sort of connection with the gene.

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Kev is that the same line that produced T- albinos also?

Great looking Paradox Kev

DragonDavy

Nice Good luck with him.

DragonDavy

It would be interesting if someone could figure out what chemically is happening in the caramels. Maybe caramel is missing some enzyme to make fully black pigment and somehow these paradox are getting a little of it made in spots.

Steve, any chance you will breed your paradox caramel to an albino to see if he's het albino?

Is anyone crossing these two morphs (caramel and albino) this year? I know it seems silly as proverbial wisdom is that albino will cover caramel but I was hoping to see a test to confirm or eliminate the possibility that caramel and albino are alleles and the double hets will be caramel looking animals. Kind of an expensive test I know if you do get the expected normal looking double hets (how much less would the females be than albinos?) but it will be years before I can do it myself. I did breed a 66% chance het caramel male to a 50% chance het albino female this year and got only 1.4 normals.

It's probably caused by a leaky gene in the T positive albino like in the T positive boas. Only a guess.