All About Extreme Gene Albino

Born bright orange these guys are stunners for sure. 

A relatively new project for me, I only have so much information on them, and what they do at the time of writing, but I hope to update as I work with them more. 

Origins

The story I was given is this. A wild albino house snake was captured in East London that was a blood orange color, and had the stripe typical for that locality. That snake was bred to another (east london locality) in captivity and then when the het offspring came out "oddly consistent" they were held back. The best of the male offspring would later be bred back to mom and when visuals were produced they were put up for market at a European trade show as "extreme albino" or "extreme orange albino". That's where I come in.

One of the hets

I am always on the look out for rare or odd house snakes, and am privileged to have friends worldwide whom look out for them for me (as I look out for their interests here in the US) so when a Dutch friend of mine happened across 23 bright orange babies and an older male het,  I was more than happy to take the call.

I briefly spoke to the breeder (in broken Dutch- not my strongest language) in a video chat where I was shown the animals and it was arranged that I would pay my exporter for them and they could be sent with another shipment coming from South Africa that just so happened to be leaving Amsterdam in just 3 days. Just 11 days later they were here in the United States. Unfortunately because of the rush to make the export and the fast paced nature of the show, I wasn't able to get as much information on their background as I typically would like to have.

I would later find the reason they were being offered at all was because their original breeder had entirely left the hobby and wholesaled all of their animals to exporters at the show.
​Unfortunately due to the volume of sales the exporter deals in, he wasn't able to provide me any additional contact information further than the one phone call I had with the person selling them at the show, but some *theories* were presented as fact that due to its similar appearance to Deon Nell's "true albino" that it came from that blood line. So I set out to confirm this with Deon, and he informed me that it was not possible. So unfortunately, that's all I truly know about their background.  ​​​

Genetics-

Again this is a new project so these are just my observations so far. 
It's obvious that these animals are not a typical albino, but when bred to others they are surprisingly compatible. I've done a couple crosses with them now and in every case the pairing results in babies that are brighter, more intensely colored, and with patterns that are consistently distorted, typically are either very stripey or granite speckled. In my cross to a Kzn Red Albino, I found the red was brought out immediately and rivals any other red type morph i'm currently working in. In a cross to my facemask project line it brings the white up crazy high on the sides. While it did retain some striping in each pairing so far, It only seems to retain its patternless pure white stripe when crossed to east london locality capes though. So I believe that just happens to come from that locality. So far it seems to effect both color and pattern to a degree no matter what I do with it though, so I look forward to continuing to explore it in future pairings.