how closely related are the parents? what is the source for the parents, are they from the same breeder? Maybe even from the same clutch?

only explanation is that you did not breed distantly related albino to het albino, but that albino and het albino are both very closely related, siblings or mother/son. then its enough if only one grandparent is possible het for something, because inbreeding does the rest: the parents share grandparents in some weird way.

you might be able to bring out more of these, with inbreeding. Im no fan of this. Especially not if this unexpected hit is already the result of inbreeding.

Its not unlikely to be a clown, since it is a pattern morph, and since it would otherwise be visible in the parents it has to be a recessive pattern morph. There are not many recessive pattern morphs that look remotely like this. But i also would not yet exclude the possibility that you just hit a very, very reduced normal.

If you hit a clown by doing inbreeding, you should buy a different unrelated clown to breed it, or sell it. If it is now impacted by inbreeding, it would be a good idea to make sure it is being bred to unrelated BPs next generation. Inbreeding is controversial, i say avoid it if possible, but i can tolerate breeders that do it more often than i would consider necessary. I would go to lengths to avoid inbreeding and even if other breeders do inbreeding i can still easily avoid it in my collection, so i say live and let live. But my advice is: unless working on double recessives, it can and should be avoided. And even when working on a double recessive project, as soon as you hit the first visuals, you can and should avoid inbreeding from that point on.


Anyway, the clearest and best photos can be made right after the 1st shed, i am very much looking forward to that, so keep us updated. Also, data on parents please, are the parents related or not?