RE: White on tongue? May well be a marker!
Still have my doubts that these occured by pure fluke,all albinos originate from a wild caught specimen so where's the albino that produced the hets to produce these?Obviously nobody would admit to having an albino bhp but the chances of one being found or bred here in Australia are far more than in the US,and before people say inbreeding with a limiteed gene pool causes mutations such as albinos which i highly doubt.Other pattern mutations and mutants with 2 heads etc i'm guessing would be the result of continous inbreeding if done long enough although have never heard of line breeding causing mutations.If this were the case, with the very limited gene pool the Carpets basically all originate from in the US etc and the amount of crossing they do that if anyone was going to breed albinos by chance without knowing it would happen with many years of inbreeding and crossing which has been done 1000 times over with carpets overseas and all sorts of mutations have occured but still never an albino.
Sorry,i just find it hard to swallow the fact that these just happened to pop up out of the blue and i did provide a better arguement that made more sense in another thread regarding these guys which seems very much more likely to be the case than a fluke hatching from a pair of unknown hets.Just my opinion and nobody i doubt will come up with proof otherwise.
By the way they are absolutely stunning and can't wait to see how they colour up and what other forms of albinism they produce.Did you get a pair of albinos?If not i guess it's simple to raise all the offspring to breeding age and that would produce quite a few albinos, hets etc Also interesting that the normals aren't quite normal which may be another trait as i doubt that albinism is the cause for them being different which would mean some sort of co dominant gene.It all starts getting pretty technical especially if crossing with other inherited traits which if the genetics of the trait are known the offspring should be quite predictable in number and certain inherited traits depending on which generation.
Wow man,think i just confused myself for the rest of the day,too early for this anyway :?
