Quote Originally Posted by bait4snake
Uh oh, if paradox albinos actually are a screwed up Het Albino, then you bought 50% Het Albinos!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
No--A het albino is heterozygous at the albino loci. Meaning it carriers one gene version (allele) that is normal and one that is the recessive albino mutation. Apparently Cue has relayed the observation that some of the paradox albinos with a pattern like normals are not homozygous recessive like normal albinos, instead they are hets. I'm not sure how this knowledge was acquired.

A 50% het albino is short for 50% possible heterozygous. This means there is a 50/50 chance that the snake carries one albino allele (in other words, a 50% chance that it is heterozygous!) Possible heterozygotes always appear normal and are produce by genetic crosses involving at least one het.

While a proven het x proven het crossing gives albinos and 66% possible hets, a proven het x normal cross gives 50% possible hets.

Hope that helps and this is why it's important to know and understand genetic terminology.