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DonSoderberg
at Tue May 13 13:48:14 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DonSoderberg ]
You were not rude one little bit. No worries.
What you have there really has no name. It's not really calico and it's not pie-baldism. At this point, it's just color changing (absence of color). Neither of those color-changing mutations has had any significant degree of breeding trials to prove its heritability. There is a blister disease that used to be called calico. You didn't mention sores accompanying the color changed scales, so it doesn't sound as though you have that. Bottom line is that without knowing anything about the parents of your snake (presuming there's no evidence of this in relatives of your snake), and in lieu of results from forward breeding trials, it's not known why your snake has these colorless scales. Therefore, it would be wrong to give it a name, until you know what causes it and/or if it's heritable. My advice would be to call it nothing. As pointed out above, it could simply be a maturation phenomenon, not unlike aged mammals getting gray hair/fur. Shrug?
South Mountain Reptiles
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No problem . . . - DonSoderberg, Tue May 13 13:48:14 2008