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Kerby...
at Tue May 24 09:46:14 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kerby... ]
The problem with identifying cal kings by visual appearance without knowing the genetics results in misidentification. Plus we as humans like to "label" everything, especially if it is somewhat different than the norm. And yes, baby cal kings can change in appearance from babies to adults.
Cal kings vary in color in their natural state and when you add a recessive gene to that then the results will vary as well.
So what do we have here? Just two recessive genes.....albino and lavender. Albino banana, albino high white, and lavender.
**Call kings have a variety of genetic mutations that give many types of hypomelanism or albinism. Many of these mutations are different genetically but similar phenotypcally. IE if you breed a lavender to an albino you will get normals het for both. If you truly had an animal that showed both traits, the one earlier in the melanism cascade (albino) would hide the other. (Kerby is that correct?)**
That is true. I have bred an albino to a lavender, thus producing double hets, (although one male came out looking "hypo" loooking). I have produced numerous clutches from those double hets, getting lots of albinos and lots of lavenders, but I cannot identify a product of one displaying BOTH albino and lavender at the same time. Statistically (1/16), I'm sure that I have produced one. So when I see the "label" of albino lavender, I think of a cal king that is displaying BOTH albino and lavender at the same time.
Not knowing the genetics of your snakes (as in YOU produced it), then appearance can be very confusing.
So what do we have here? Blue-Eyed Blonde on the LEFT and a double het (hypo & Ghost/Palomar) on the right. See, that double het should have been "normal looking"..........
There should be just ONE (1) lavender label IMO. And there should not be a label as "albino lavender" unless that cal king is showing BOTH albino and lavender at the same time. Great Valley Serpentarium has "Lavenders" that IMO should be called HYPOS, and that is what I call them, HYPOS.
Here is a typical lavender adult, the grandfather of the striped lavender. They look nothing alike, but they are the SAME gene.
So, I think we ought to drop the "albino lavender" label and just call lavenders.....well lavenders.
Kerby...
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Well,..... - Kerby..., Tue May 24 09:46:14 2011