As far as I know, that annoying tandem-trait known as "bug-eye" that often goes hand-in-hand with the leucistic gene isn't known to cause any noticable health issues. But as you mentioned, I also hate the way it looks, and don't care for it in the least bit. Some people think it's sort of cute, but I would MUCH rather have them with totally normal eyes any day of the week.

Bug-eyed Texas Rats can express this trait mildly, moderately, or very severely, it really depends on the the idividuals and genetic predisposition of iheritence as to how much is displayed.

Although it is far less common, leucistic snakes, and other types of snakes can get a bit of color pigment that tends to grow some as the snake matures. Usually this is looked at in the hobby as a "parodox" animal, because with this most solid colored leucistic, or amelanistic animals, it is usually considered genetically impossible to happen, but yet it does. This definitely isn't the norm, but it can, and does happen once in a great while, and it seems like yours is doing the same. I wouldn't worry about it though, it is what it is, and you certainly cannot stop the process..LOL!

Most people would RATHER have a weird, oddball anomaly like that rather than a typical solid white one, so if you don't particularly like what you see as time goes on as it matures, I would think you could easily find someone that did want to take it off of your hands.

Anyway, I don't think there are any real health issues here at all, other than looking a bit goofy with the silly bug-eyes!..LOL!!

~Doug


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• Does "bugeyes" affect the health of - joann42, Sat Aug 14 20:15:56 2010
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