"well guys..here is what i know about leucistics and albinos. I once read an article that stated scientists injected the proper color cromasome into the patterned area of an albino snakes scale and the scale accepted the proper color but when injected into a leucistic snakes scale it totally rejected color and reamined white, so I'm convinced leucisticisim is a dominant trait. as for the other phases...anytheiristic means lacking red pigment. amelanistic means lacking black pigment and axanthic means lacking color..(other than black or grey or white)"



OK, but I thought dominant meant that if bred to a normal that more Leucistics would be produced? Regardless that is an interesting fact I had bever heard before.



"patternless pines are common north of gainsville and offspring from patternless will produce both normals and patternless young."



Do you know if they're often a certain color in this area or may there be quite a few colors of the Patternless from this region?



"snow is a albino without red ,orange or pink pigments but has pink eyes (albino)leucistics are normal in every aspect but lacking all colors but all seem to have either a yellow or pink tinge."



I thought the same thing, that Snows should have very transparent color...like a dusting of color as if the blotches were almost..but not quite erased. Lucys in my opinion should not be tinged in any color. If I am not mistaken Black Rats and Texas rats are solid white, and have no other color?? This is one of the reasons I had always wondered what exactly makes the Leucistic Pines allowed to have any color?? I thought they had to be solid white?



"I personally only breed normals to normals but like leucistics but would only breed the whitiest to the whitiest. and don't think for a minute that people are franticly mixing phases and species all the time and more and more often so you'll spend a lifetime tring to sort all the morphs out on the dynamics principal....but good luck tom......JB"



I really appreciate this[and all} post/s. I agree it is unlikely I will decipher all of these variants but any progress will make it worth my while. I just think there are some people out there who may know some of the origins of the variants but it appears to just not be common knowledge as morphs are in other types of snakes. From what I understand breeding 2 Lucys will not make an entire clutch of Lucys which is something that I feel many people do not realize.. Can you please email me TomsSnakes@gmail.com Thanks Tom Stevens
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