Well, in my opinion, some seem to be more anerythristic looking technically, and some seem to be EXTREMELY hypoerythristic looking where a hint of pink hue is noticeable. Young snakes can give false readings too because you can actually see the blood in the snakes tissue itself through the skin and scales because of the extremely thin skin and scales of tiny snakes. Just as you can see into their heads too in amels, or see the dark eyes of a young leucistic Texas Ratsnake through the top of it's head etc...Only when they are older and their skin/scales get thicker can you no longer see into the actual snakes tissue. Also how much obscuring by any degree of melanin would tend to come into play some too as they mature.

Some anery milks are fairly pink, and some types seem to display no pink that I can detect. It might be similar to the varying degrees of hypomelanism we see in many snakes, where it is the same gene but has many varying degrees of expression. Many genes seem to be like this where there can be great degrees of variation, and not all absolutely identical.

Certain snow Hondurans are pretty much evidence of this great variation in their displaying reds and pinks or not. Sort of a tough thing to mail-down with absolute certainty.


~Doug
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