Granite het Albino

This animal is a visual Granite carrying the Albino allele in heterozygous form. Visually, it displays the characteristic Granite pattern fragmentation – regular banding broken into individually pigmented scale clusters. The Albino het status is not visible and is determined through documented parentage.

Granite originates from Irian Jaya (M. s. harrisoni) and Albino from Darwin (M. s. variegata). The combination of both lineages makes this a documented subspecies cross.

The hidden Albino allele provides breeding value for producing visual Albino Granites – a double-recessive combination that removes all dark pigment from the Granite pattern, resulting in a pale golden-cream mosaic on a white-yellow ground. Paired with another Granite het Albino, statistically 25% of offspring will be visual Albino Granites.