Hi all. We paired a female het albino to a male genetically banded het albino (not bred by us so we weren’t 100% on their morphs) these babies were the outcome… any ideas on what morphs they’re hiding or morphs of these beauties? Totally surprised, they weren’t what we were expecting at all!
Thanks in advance!
Definitely need to wait and see how they look when they shed for anything else.
But you also had het clown in the parents and I would want to double check the color after shed on the pale one before saying you had het axanthic.
There’s also a small chance that mom could have partho clutched though and maybe was the only multihet.
Thanks for your reply.
We were thinking the same definitely clown.
Does the albino seem clown to you too?
Definitely hoping for axanthic fingers crossed!
We do have a male albino tiger that came from the same breeder so maybe somethings crossed paths previously to cause it!
I’ll go out on a limb and say that one baby in the 3rd photo definitely looks Axanthic. Interesting! But I can’t say what line of Axanthic, without parent lineage or shed testing there’s no way to say for sure.
Parents are het Clown, and baby 1 is Clown. The 2nd baby may be Clown? The head pattern looks to show signs of the morph… but I can’t guarantee it is Clown based on that alone.
The 4th is difficult to judge because the baby shine is in the way. I’d wait to post more photos of them until after their first shed to see how their colors really look.
Do you have photos of the parents?
I’m confident that albino baby is a clown, it has no eye stripes. It’s worth testing your male for clown to see if you have a partho clutch. I also agree with Armiyana to wait for the first shed to see if it’s really axanthic. Did the parents both come from the same breeder?
Thank you all so much for replying. I can’t wait for them to shed! I’ll get some pictures up of mum and dad as soon as I can. We thought clown, albino clown, normal and axanthic. We were in such shock we wanted to double check with you guys! Such unexpected beauties!
It’s definitely an awesome surprise! And with that 5% chance for that double visual to hit as well (I wish it were me! 
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Just goes to prove how frustrating things can get. Especially in situations with a problematic mutations or in multiple incompatible lines like the axanthic in BPs. If someone had a het they just didn’t care to work with and bred it… that doesn’t stop the gene from passing along. Those possible hets can cause surprises like this further down the line.
Hi all they have had lovely sheds and here they are… 
Just uploaded photos of them now they have shed they look slightly different. Not sure whether it is axanthic what do you think? Thanks for your reply too
You need to get us photos of the parents! These babies are interesting 
The Albino is definitely Clown, which is cool since I personally don’t see Albino Clowns very often.
The “Axanthic” baby is hard to tell because there are a few different lines of Axanthic that can all appear differently in BPs… but I think there’s also something else going on because of the pattern.
The Clown appears to be just that.
And the last baby like with the “Axanthic” baby has an odd pattern… not entirely sure what it could be but they aren’t normals/wild types, I want to say GHI for the two but I can’t guarantee that.
This is mum and dad. Mum is the larger one. We were told both are normal het albino and that dad is genetically banded.
We do have a jolliff tiger albino male so wondering if maybe these are both his offspring and that’s where the surprises have come from maybe?
Thanks for your replies!
None of these babies appear to have Genetic Band or Jolliff Tiger in them that would suggest their sire(s). And niether parents appear to have GHI at all…
My guess is that the female may have retained sperm from a previous pairing before you got her, how long have you had the parents for?
This situation definitely calls for genet testing. At least you know they have confirmed hets for Albino and Clown!
Yeah we were going to test one of them because it’s baffled us. We’ve had these two for just over a year…
It was a nice surprise though that’s for sure!
In my knowledge female BPs can store sperm from previous pairings for about around as long as a year or maybe even longer. I think that may be what happened here, if you still have contact with the female’s previous owner I’d definitely shoot them a message.
Regardless, mom being het clown was definitely a nice bonus for you. =)
Definitely a nice surprise! Think these will be part of our new breeders for next season!
