I am learning quickly that I do not understand rosy boa genetics as much as I thought I did, and I might have already bit myself in the butt because of it.

As you can see in my sig I have a male whitewater rosy boa and he is het for albino. I have always struggled to understand exactly what a whitewater is in terms of locality, but have never really found an answer. Eventually I was told that their exact genetics are not well known and that they are likely either desert x coastal crosses, or that they are simply a different branch of the coastal rosy boa.

My boy looks more like a desert to me than a coastal.

Now this is where I have gotten myself into a bit of a hard place... I recently put down a deposit for an adult female albino coastal rosy boa. I was hoping to breed and produce albino coastal babies (or coastal x whitewater if you prefer) but now I'm reading that the albino coastals are not genetically compatible with the albino whitewater, so I wont be able to produce albinos?

I just don't understand what makes them different... I was basically under the impression that a whitewater is a coastal, so I don't know why the albino allele is not compatible ): I'm still probably going to get the female coastal, and if nothing else I'll hold out for an albino male coastal in the future.

If anyone could help me out it would be super awesome!