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i was wounder in the high contrast and fade albino lines are the same albino gene or are there different albino lines like there is in boas?

It's not a stupied question. They are different albino lines, I don't think they are compatable with each ether, no breeders I know have breed a high-contrast albino and a faded albino. It's like Ghost lines some breeders bred a orange ghost to a yellow ghost, some had eggs that were all slugs and some did not even lay eggs. RDR bred a Caramel Albino male to a Lavender Albino female this season, so hopefully his eggs will hatch this season, all the babies will be dbl hets for caramel lavender. Hope This Helps Scott Glover

All the T- Albinos are compatable. They are all the same thing, just like any other morph some just look better. If you breed two really nice albinos together there's no guarantee the babies will be as nice, and vice versa. All baby albinos are high contrast, but most fade out.

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What Eric said about the "T-" lines (regular albino, high contrast, faded). As far as I've heard they are all the same mutation just with individual differences which are probably controlled by other genes just like normals vary in color and pattern.

I've actually had a hunch for years that caramel and regular albino might be alleles (different mutations of the same gene) and you might not get the expected normal looking double hets if anyone ever where to cross them. I'm excited about the Caramel X Lavender clutch because if all goes well it will likely be the first public reported results for a cross between any of what might turn out to be an allele group (regular albino, caramel, and lavender). Of course they might well be completely unrelated morphs and produce the expected normal looking double hets but at least we are making progress to find out.