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what would you classify this male albino as?
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because i have this female coral phase. that i bought as that a coral phase. but i bought the male above as just a normal. but he is starting to look better than the female. what do you all think?
thanks Brendan

I say breed them and see what you get!!

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Brandon,
that is a fantstic looking albino Boa with better color than most and you should be proud to own it, but here comes the but......
I would classify it as just that, a great looking Albino Boa. Unless the breeder that produced that boa lays claim to some other genetic line within the boa bloodline then it can not just be reclassified as something else becuase it looks better than most. I don't write this to upset you because that really is a great looking snake and I would be proud to own it, but what would have to be done is this......
The snakes trait (having more orange color then most regular albinos) would have to be refined and proven genetic before you could honestly classify it as anything else then a nice looking albino. By breeding it to an unrelated boa and then breeding those possible hets together you could should that the line is genetic, however I would think that a few generations if breeding to really bring that orange out (selective breeding) would then entitled you to creat a new morph out of it. This is of course assuming that the entire thing is genetic.
Other then that, the snake is great looking albino that in itself should fetch a higher dollar then normal just based on it's looks and color alone, no need for a fancy name on it.
Thanks
Jim Hopkins