That particular animal is owned by a good friend of mine, and I used to have some of it's genetic background written down and stored somewhere, but now I cannot remember where the heck I put it.



I do know however that the weird trait has not been hereditary in any breedings up to this point, which is too bad.



So keep in mind, the "bug-eyed" trait that can affects a fair number of the leucistic Texas Ratsnakes in tandem with the desired leucism is really the only known undesirable trait in any of the colubrid type snakes that I am aware of. In Ball pythons, there is a "bobble-head" trait, but that is an entirely different deal, and any of this nonsense is EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY few and far between.



BTW, the "bug-eye" characteristic displayed with this individual is very mild actually, it can also be WAY more pronounced than this. And no, I do not care for this particular mutation at all, and it is VERY undesireablr to me. If you google this up on the net, you will see what I mean, there are some very groteque examples of this "tandem" trait out there in the hobby.



~Doug




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