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RandyRemington
at Sun Feb 22 06:38:01 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RandyRemington ]
I don't think we have yet seen the perfectly white blue eyed leucistic. It looks to me like the blue eyed ones have faint yellow stripes and the black eyed ones might be cleaner white. Don't get me wrong, they are all very very nice, they just don't fit your description of what a leucistic should be.
The Barkers came up with a leucistic type numbering scheme to make sense of these ( http://www.vpi.com/4VPIInventory/VPIPriceList/BallPicPages/ballpythonpatterntext.htm ). Some breeders have abandoned the leucistic name altogether for some balls that might have easily been given the name as babies (NERD's Pearl and Snake Keeper's Ivory).
My thinking is that the balls being called "leucistic" are close enough, especially when you consider examples such as "leucistic" leopard geckos.
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