i do not know of any sidewinder morphs currently being bred....albinos have been produced, but do not seem to have ever made it into any breeding programs...your animal may be some type of pastel, but i would need to see pics next to litter mates to make a better judgement call....you can rule out hypo as there are black dots, the reduction of melanin changes the color where black would be....also albino can be ruled out with the black dots....an albino sidewinders colors would be the same as the other carmel albino(T ) rattlesnakes or the T- yellow and white albinos....and a paradox albino animals dots wouldn't appear so uniformly... i am on the east coast and do not see hundreds of sidewinders a year, so i may be wrong about the pastel even...i have seen lots of really light sidewinders at shows, so finding someone that specializes in them would be the best person to ask... also some of those west coast herpers could help here....

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