I think the maltese turning black to blue is particular to cats, which is the most common reference for this trait. I think that is only true with fur, so a snake isn’t going to turn blue expressing this trait. I think it is more widely felt to be an albino trait that does not affect the eyes, so they call it a cutaneous albino. The reverse of that is the ocular albino, which has normal color all over and ruby red eyes. Very freaky trait as well, and one that was seen on the milksnake forum about six months ago or so. Also, the maltese or cutaneous albino trait can affect each color, yellow, black, red, etc and be every shade from hypomelanistic to bone white albino. It is a generalized cutaneous depigmentation. The Jelly Brooks could be a maltese version having a problem expressing Tyrosinase due to the T negative gene. That’s why I think this trait is more common than we know, why some traits that express as similar looking aren’t compatible, and why things don’t work out like we think sometimes. This is another form of albino that may combine with other traits and reveal some really cool stuff.

[ Hide Replies ]

• Update: Wild caught albino black rat - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:21:31 2008
• Pics 1-3 - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:24:31 2008
• Pics 4-6 - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:25:49 2008
• Pics 7-9 - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:28:30 2008
• Pic 10-14 (includes eye close ups) - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:33:15 2008
• oops.. left one out - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:36:13 2008
• Cripes... pink sky???.... dunno why - Wyvern, Fri Jul 11 20:41:57 2008
• Awesome! ... - Redmoon, Fri Jul 11 23:08:27 2008
• RE: Awesome! ... - Wyvern, Sun Jul 13 16:54:19 2008
• RE: Awesome! ... - Redmoon, Tue Jul 15 09:40:45 2008
• very nice snake you have there n/p - FRoberts, Sat Jul 12 09:58:22 2008
• RE: Update: Wild caught albino black rat - DMong, Sat Jul 12 20:22:50 2008
• RE: Hey Doug - dre, Sat Jul 12 21:26:17 2008
• RE: Hey Doug - DMong, Sat Jul 12 22:33:15 2008
• RE: Update: Wild caught albino black rat - Wyvern, Sun Jul 13 17:26:25 2008
• RE: Update: Wild caught albino black rat - Upscale, Sat Jul 12 22:21:35 2008
• RE: Update: Wild caught albino black rat - Wyvern, Sun Jul 13 16:51:49 2008
• RE: Update: Wild caught albino black rat - Upscale, Sun Jul 13 18:11:46 2008
• here's an albino with normal eye color - colby, Tue Jul 15 11:46:31 2008