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Well, I got this girl at a local show. She was sold to me as a ghost, and if nothing else she is the prettiest ghost Ive seen in person.

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Burm baby burm...

Beautifil snake!!

You got a heck of a deal on an awesome snake!,....because that certainly ain't no regular "ghost". A lavender gene, and even possibly some other mutation(s) in there as well. But that is certainly not your "run of the mill" ghost! Eyes look deep "pigeon-blood" red as well from what I can tell in the photo.........very nice animal!

!Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Definitely lavender, but it appears to be hypo lavender. Only the clarity of the sloughed skin will tell if it's hypo or not.
South Mountain Reptiles

I was hoping someone would say lavender. Thats what she looked like to me. The whole thing was interesting because the guys who sold her to me didnt seem to know very much about corns but claimed to have bred them for a couple years. An example was that I asked them if any of the snakes were also hets and he said, "Here is a het anery, see how it has grey tones instead of the normal coloration." Anyway they said she was a ghost, but on the tag (it had been crossed out) was also hypo lavender.
Anyway, she was a pretty snake for a great price and should breed pretty soon. Im certainly not complaining!
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Burm baby burm...

Whatever morph he is, and lavendar certainly is the most likely, that is one handsome serpent that anyone would be tickled to have in his/her collection. congratulations! just curious but what female morph are you planning to breed him to, if at all?

Well first, it is a girl and second she is possibly gravid. If not, I have a normal het lav/albino/hypo to breed her with.
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Burm baby burm...

Could you go into a little more detail about IDing hypo based on the sloughed skin. I'd never heard of this; it sounds like a great trick.
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1.1 Ghost corns, 1.1 Butter het. stripe corns, 0.1 normal corn
1.1 Tremper Albino Leopard Geckos
1.0 Super dalmation crested, 1.1 Pinstripe crested, 2.1.1 Misc crested
1.0 Ghost Bull, 0.1 Snow bull

In most cases, it's possible to see melanin in the shed skins of NON hypo A corns. In most cases, corns that are genotypically hypo A mutants have shed skins that are like those of albinos, devoid of melanin. I say "genotypically" because the general definition of hypomelanistic is GREATLY REDUCED MELANIN (usually relegated to the epidermis). Obviously a snake that has very little black could qualify as a hypomelanistic phenotype, but would still actually possess melanin in it's outer dermis, thereby disqualifying it as being a hypo A genotype (by today's standards).

If you examine the shed skin of your snake, and you are certain there is no melanin (very low amounts of it are sometimes difficult to see), it's very likely a hypo A corn (even if it's another pattern or color mutation also). If you see melanin corresponding to the darkest parts of your corn's pattern, it's usually NOT hypo A. I keep qualifying this information by saying thins like "usually" and "possibly" because exceptions have been reported AND because there are not only more than one hypomelanistic mutation in corns at this time, but surely more that have not yet appeared or are currently unidentifiable.

Good luck,
South Mountain Reptiles

That thing is sweet!