You ever look at one of your snakes and wonder “How did you suddenly get so big?” Well we did with our Paradox boy Hephestus. Just came off a 2 month fast (unknown why) and suddenly he’s packed on the grams. He’s 132 grams to be exact. Is he really a chonk or is he just good and healthy? Wishing he was an adult female instead of this handsome boy.
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He looks healthy. How often are you feeding him?
Excellent example of a paradox albino, BTW.
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I feed him once a week two F/T pinky rats. We upped it from a single pinky to a double after his fasting episode and he’s rounded out quite a bit in the last month.
Also thanks! I’m looking for him a girlfriend cause I’m def interested in breeding and selling paradox. It’s a fascinating morph.
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He is lovely. I would have named him Fanta.
If you ever wanted to make valentine’s Day cards you have a snake love heart right there in that picture 
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To bad that love heart wasn’t what he was thinking. Hephestus is a sweetie but he’d much rather be digging
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Paradox is genetic in sand boas?
Paradox has to be bred to another paradox or Het paradox as far as I understand. How anyone got the “original” I’m not sure. Think it’s recessive and so you gotta have both parents with the genes to get more…
Paradox is not a seperate gene. The gene is paradox albino. It is a single-gene recessive trait descended from a wild-caught visual owned by VPI. There is no such thing as a non-albino paradox sand boa. The paradox gene is totally distinct from and incompatible with the other strain of (non-paradox) albinism, sometimes referred to as the Bell albino.
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Thanks so much for that info. I knew it was tied into Albino but didn’t know exactly how it worked other than both parents needing the gene.