Ahhh, but if one cannot distinguish a hybino from a albino, I don't see how anyone could between a snow and an opal either. They all vary far too much naturally.



Yours may very well look different than other snows, but I don't think it is necessarily because of the hypo gene being involved in the equation though. I just can't see the correlation from being reduced melanin, to NO melanin, and there being a visual difference. Especially one that can be pin-pointed definitively by simply looking at it.



Years ago it was thought that hybinos were a creamier orange than the albinos, but that is nonsense too, as the other colors have nothing to do with melanin. I think that first particular line of hybino might have had a naturally pale/creamier looking tangerine coloration is all, and it "seemed" that this was the difference. If any possible difference doesn't involve SOLEY the rings that would normally be black, I just can't see any possibility of there being a difference at all to be quite honest.



Shannon just posted a whole bunch of hybinos and snows that had all sorts of differnt looks to their color scheme,....different shades of reds, oranges, yellows, greens, etc.., as well as the hybino I just posted that Rusty just produced, and she could just as easily be an amel if I didn't know exactly what produced her.



Anyway, if you start out with a little bit of melanin, then take it all completely away, what is left to see other than the other colors involved in the animal that don't have anything to do with melanophores?...reds, yellows, pinks, and greens??





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