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Breeding: Conda 66% poss het albino male x het albino female.
Pile of slugs because the male was kinda small and young...but 2 survived.

Both babies...albino...and not only that...

I got my male albino conda to replace dad, who was proven as 100% het albino.

So...stoked.

And the other albino. I am fairly sure it's a male as well.

@ very nice hogs. Congrats. Just one question though. What make you think your pile of slugs was due to your male being young and small? Slugs are usually attributed to a females reproductive failure, not the males.

Hi Gregg, could you clarify that. I am under a different impression. Slugs are merely enlarged ovum, that were not fertilizied. (not an egg until fertilized and shelled or just shelled)
In that, slugs are about no healthy sperm reaching the ovum. Which can indeed be a result of the female, as you suggested, or the male, immobile sperm, weak, no sperm delivered during copulation. Males indeed can suffer from all of that. Or something as simple as non supportive chemistry in the oviducts, that does not allow the sperm to live long enough to fertilize the ovum.
With kings, I can explain how to tell which is which. Indeed, reproductive failure can fail in any of the steps to producing viable eggs. Thanks

Let me clarify.
In my experience and in the experience of others I have discussed this very subject with, it does not generally seem to be a problem with the male. I have had a single male with a few females and have had a female slug out here and there. The thing is, there is never any order it happens in. Meaning it is never only the first or last or in the middle. Not exactly scientific, but it is what I have experienced and concluded.

Interesting, with kings, females form cloaca plugs after copulation. This often confuses many keepers that used more then one male.
It without question can be a problem with the female. But males can also be infertile. Its that way with every species I have worked with. In the old days, keepers would swab for sperm and check for mobile active sperm. Sometimes, no sperm was found in the males. Particularly early in the season.
In the field, males generally emerge well before the females and heat up long before the females emerge. Again, with other species. Hogs, I do not know. Thanks for your experience.