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[Conners]

That is a wealth of useful info and very much the sort of thing I was after - thanks v much, boaterr.

It is a bit of a mixed bag, however, and some of the evidence seems to go against your point of view rather than for it.

I'm not sure that what you say about Leopard boas is relevant to a debate about morphs, let alone albinos specifically. You acknowledge that the problems encountered with Leopards are due to "improper raising". If a captive population of locality boas are difficult to get feeding and reproducing, that's obviously got nothing to do with the question of whether it's wrong to breed albinos.

If you were to argue that the problems you believe are encountered when breeding albinos are because of inbreeding, then I am bound to say that you're far more likely to encounter inbreeding depression trying to keep a rare locality strain pure, when perhaps all you have to work with are filial generations descended from just a handful of wild-caught individuals, than if you're breeding albino BCIs, whereupon you can regularly cross genetically normal animals into the lineage to create hets.

But I'm very interested in what you say about Albino Surninams. I wonder what the background is there. I know that breeders have crossed both albino BCI types into normal BCCs with as view to creating "albino BCCs" by back crossing the subsequent generations with the normal parent (obviously they would not get actual BCCs, just crosses that looked like BCCs). I didn't know that anyone was working with wild-caught albino BCCs, or even that any had been found to be honest.