>>First off, I'd like to say congratulations!
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>> That animal can only be best described as a "paradox" albino!.


While the snake right now is indeed a "paradox", I would be hesitant to call it a paradox albino since as the way I understand the term to be currently used in snakes, there should be some black speckles in some random spot/s on the body and there is none to be found. And I agree certainly not a hypo because of the obvious lack of melanin on the body. I more or less ruled out the T-negative since there are no red/pink eyes. The closest I came to was the T-positive, but it didn't match up perfectly as there should have been some "brown" leaking into the color of the body in addition to the eyes (if I am understanding the genetics behind it), but the scales are a pearly/opal-like white not a tan-cream. The only "lavender" I can really see is the skin between the scales and part of the tongue. Leucistic is a possibility, but again not a perfect match. From what I have seen from pictures of other people's lucy black rats the snakes are more or less white on white straight from the egg and this snake is coral on white.

paradox leucistic maybe? lol

I kinda liked Upscales' theory of a Maltese dilution gene, but if I was understanding the genetics of that, then the eyes are not involved (i.e. they stay normal), but the snake should then technically be a blue-lavender color (from the dilution of the black-brown) instead of white.

The snake is by no means full grown yet and with normal black rats, the colors/patterns continuously change as they grow to full size / adulthood, so it's possible this snake will also follow that pattern and keep changing and messing with my head for another year or so.

I'm working on trying to find a nice adult normal het for nothing local female to breed him to, but so far a friend has only found a wild male. All other black rats we've seen have been DOR this year.

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