Yes, I believe the original platy was a wild bred combo. We don't know how common the hidden gene is as so far it only shows up really well in lesser/butter. So might not be that far out there to make the platy combo compared to combo of two unrelated albino hets to make an albino.

By "normal normal" I meant wild type as opposed to the hiddens that look normal but really have a mutant allele even though it doesn't show by it's self.

Hard to know how many more surprises Africa has for us. I think a good part of the ball python diversity is in the numbers. If we collected 150k corn snake eggs from the wild each year we might hatch out a lot of odd mutants there too. If something where to change to decrease the wild collection it would probably impact new morph discovery. Even staying steady I would think the number of new morphs has to be decreasing slowly as so many have already been seen.