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If you live in the US and purchase an albino boa. It is a product of heavy inbreeding and there is no way around that. The albino boa gene pool is about as shallow and muddied with defects as it gets. It doesn't matter if the two parents were from the same litter or not. Both parents came from a heavy line of inbreeding before. Albinos started off in the US pet trade in very limited numbers. The population has exploded so fast that there is no possible way that any responsible breeding practices were ever followed. Each time a new breeder gets a pair, they figure they can safely inbreed a few generations with no regard to how many inbred generations happened to their blood line before they got their animals or how many will follow once they sell off their offspring. It's a ruthless cycle.
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