The long wait

[Jeff B]

Some of that brown could be from melanin, melanophores are involved in more coloration than simply jet black alone, most of the brown colorations are the result of melanin and other pigments combined. However, that said, that snake could possibly still be producing less (hypo) melanin. It's more a question of characterizing: is that just normal random variation of a wild type or is it a dramatic variant (morph)? then is it inheritable, and then further, does it have a predictable inheritance pattern that follows a typical genetic inheritance model?

Hope you make nice snows, Shawn!

[sirtalis01]

The easterns from where this lil grl comes from all look normal yyellow and black and some I've seen with like a neon green/lime color.......I guess I have some work to do if I want to try n prove it out lol.....she still to small to breed so next year I'm going to breed her to a shuett albino.....the pic really kills her color...she's like a durty brick color.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

[QUOTE=sirtalis01;156580]ok im no expert on genetics....so what would you call this beaty...only a few ppl seen this beaty in person n they all agry to be a hypomelanistic (lacking black) what do you guys think? she shown no black pigment just the brown/red and som cream color.


Not sure what you would call it, but like you said it's hard to capture true color in pics. Good luck with her she is a looker that's for sure i bet she will make some nice albinos when you breed her to the schuett albino.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Got my big axanthic and albino females out and they both look to be gravid.
fingers crossed.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

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My female anery/axanthic eastern just shed and she looks like she's about to bust.

[RedSidedSPR]

Lookin' forward to it.

[RdubSnider]

That's a exciting girl you have there. Hope the breeding will prove that trait. Keep us posted

[BLUESIRTALIS]

That's a exciting girl you have there. Hope the breeding will prove that trait. Keep us posted

Thanks i will try to keep everything posted.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Just wanted to update that i had very bad results this year out of this anery/axanthic girl she had all slugs. Im not sure what went wrong other than it being her first litter but maybe i will try another male next year. The good news is she is back to normal so maybe better luck next year. I did get to have a bunch of other litters born so i can't complain. I just hated it because i really wanted these babies to raise up for my breeding project.

[Kantar]

how very unfortunate