>>It certainly appears to be amelanistic(albino) to me.
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>> One thing that seems puzzling however, is the eye color you're mentioning. I would be willing to bet good money that on closer inspection under a strong light source, that the pupil is actually a deep deep "ruby-red", or blood-red coloration. There are many deep red eyed snakes that appear to be black at first glance. I even have a hypo Lavender corn that has eyes that are such deeply colored red, they actually look black unless looked at under good light from the right angle.
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I used a strong pen-light last night and could not pick up a red color. Today (now that the sun is out from all the storms), I looked at his eyes closely and again, no noticeable red could be seen. The only difference I could see between last night (with the pen-light) and today (in the sunlight) is that the grayish color (between the outer blue ring and the brown-gold area) was actually more bluish than grayish. Right now, if the pupil is red it is so dark as to not be distinguishable from black from what I can see. I will keep trying to check him out and try to get some better pics.

He is a doll. Very well behaved if just a tad head shy, but then my luck has always run that way.. fresh wild caughts being far more docile/tame than captive bred ROFL. He did give me a small fecal sample that I will run tomorrow to check for parasites. Probably will be a few days before he is settled enough to want to eat.

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