Very, very odd clutch…. Paradox Albino Pied?!

[grangereptiles]

Hi, Brief intro, we are a shop from the UK and we have a large group of Royal Pythons

3 Years ago we bred a Pied 66% Het Albino x Het Pied, we considered the pied to not be het albino as he had never fathered any albinos.

She produced 3 eggs, 1 "Het" and 2 pieds

I say "het" loosely as you will see in the photo below, he is unlike any other het i have ever seen



Pied Sibling



We bred the same pairing two years in a row to see if it was genetic and she did not produce, this year, we bred the strange "Het" back to the original Het Pied Female and she produced 7 eggs

The first egg was odd, it contained 2 babies, twins, which is always good, but one was a pied and one was a Het? as seen in the photo below, they are nothing alike, any ideas on this?



Now this is where we got really excited.. the snake looked to be a pied when it pipped which was excellent, but when it came out completely, it looked like nothing i have ever seen, the photo will speak for itself..



We are still waiting on the other 5 eggs to hatch

But in the meantime, the question i have is, thinking about the history of the parent animals, could it be purely coincidental to produce a chimera/paradox or could it be something more? (Genetic)

Any responses would be appreciated, i will keep this post updated with the hatching babies over the next few days

Thanks

[gcanibe]

Congratulations !! Very nice paradox pied albino snake !

[JodanOrNoDan]

Wow. It looks like someone threw three animals in a blender and that popped out. I have read up on this quite a bit but I do not think anyone knows for sure. There are a lot of ways paradox could happen. In this case I would bet on chimera since there were also twins in the clutch.

[BMorrison]

Beautiful!


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[Seven-Thirty]

That original het is amazing. And if I recall that paradox pied albino should be... A pied het albino. From what I understand paradoxes tend to come up in het recessives like that. There was a royally addicted episode where they talk about a "brindle" which could have only been het lavendar albino or something. Regardless great looking snakes.

on another note did that pattern of the "het" end up reproducing?

[grangereptiles]

So far the pattern has not been reproduced, but only 2 out of the 7 eggs have hatched so far..

[Albert Clark]

Those are some awesome productions! Grats. I would definitely continue the same pairings. That chimera is amazing. Does the chimera have two different eye colors?

[cheosamad]

Oh wow. That's stunning!

[tacticalveterinarian]

Very cool clutch!

[piedlover79]

That het rocks my socks! So does that epic paradox!!