...and not to rain on anyone's parade - but it is possible that she is not genetically different from your other Lavender Albinos.

Since we cannot know her entire history we will never know if she was always this color.

As a hatchling she may have looked just like any other Lavender Albino. We've all seen pics of balls that have lost a significant portion of their pigmentation after only one or two shed cycles. At this time no one seems to know what triggers this change and many people have remarked that these animals will eventually gain their color back.

However, we don't know that this is always the case and even if the color comes back to what extent.

If she is not genetic - isn't it possible that she may have "lost" her pigmentation much like some of the other snakes we've seen? Maybe, for whatever reason, she is unable to regain the pigmentation (which could be a result of her Lavender Albino genotype)???

Personally, she looks like a Hypo Lavender (I'm not sure if one has been produced in captivity yet, but if I had to guess as to what one would look like I'd describe Gweneviere).

Gorgeous animal regardless!

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• Any guesses what she is? - lavenderalbino, Sat Aug 9 12:40:35 2008
• RE: Any guesses what she is? - RandyRemington, Sat Aug 9 12:58:13 2008
• RE: Any guesses what she is? - lavenderalbino, Sat Aug 9 13:14:58 2008
• RE: Any guesses what she is? - charleshanklin, Sat Aug 9 13:22:04 2008
• a different lav next to a regular albino - lavenderalbino, Sat Aug 9 13:29:19 2008
• "Gweneviere" next to Pied, & 2 Lavs... - lavenderalbino, Sat Aug 9 13:54:54 2008
• RE: Any guesses what she is? - herpquest, Sat Aug 9 15:44:41 2008
• RE: Any guesses what she is? - Tracy Barker, Sat Aug 9 16:23:14 2008
• RE: Any guesses what she is? - morphdepot, Sat Aug 9 18:17:49 2008
• RE: Any guesses what she is? - Tracy Barker, Sat Aug 9 18:43:09 2008
• I've got a guess.... - BrandonSander, Sun Aug 10 00:18:22 2008
• RE: I've got a guess.... - lavenderalbino, Sun Aug 10 10:11:21 2008
• Hey Grant.............................. - pitoon, Sun Aug 10 14:25:20 2008
• RE: Hey Grant........................... - lavenderalbino, Sun Aug 10 21:30:29 2008
• RE: I've got a guess.... - ThaGirls, Tue Aug 12 21:15:34 2008
• RE: I've got a guess.... - lavenderalbino, Wed Aug 13 14:50:16 2008
• RE: ..I guess... - BackBeat, Sun Aug 10 14:57:05 2008
• RE: I've got a guess.... - morphdepot, Sun Aug 10 16:03:25 2008
• Have you ever thought about this???? - serpentmorphs, Sun Aug 10 16:49:27 2008
• RE: Have you ever thought about this???? - lavenderalbino, Sun Aug 10 21:24:21 2008