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I bred my female banded albino cal king to a albino lavender banana cal king.
So far, I am getting all normal cal kings. I was expecting all albinos het lavender. i think a few of the normals are real light and look hypo-ish or lavender, but they are not out of the egg yet, so dont know for sure. One thing for certain is they are lighter than black.
Why did I not get all albinos?
Here are pics of the snakes that I bred together...

Male (stripe lavender albino banana)

Female banded albino

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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"The more things change, the more they remain Insane"

The albino lavender and albino are two different types of amelanism. The albino (RD EYE) is a true albino T negative. The lavender albino is a T positive. Both these traits are not allelic with each other but now your babies that are het carriers for both genes will throw albino T negatives and T positives.

Also of note .. Not all lavender albino Cal kings are allelic when bred together. There are different lines within the T positive traits in Cal kings. Early on we used to label these with the intials of the originator , like the JR strain or JD strain.

sulfur lavender Florida king:

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ÌÏËÙÍ ËÁÂE!

"I have high friends in places."-H.Sherman in some bar

I wish I knew which strain of lavender my gene is from.
I'll have to at some point buy a known (or two) just to find out.
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I decided my old sig was too big.

I have bred that combo a few years back and got double hets....and some did come out looking "hypoish".

I've since bred the double hets back and got Albinos and Lavenders in the same clutch.

Kerby...

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Lonesome Valley Reptiles
www.lonesomevalleyreptiles.com
Specializing In California Kingsnakes

the babies are all coming out the color of the dark part of the snake that you have pictured. Not the yellow/cream color, but the purplish black color of your snake. i will post pics soon and again when they shed. I am baffled on this one.
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"The more things change, the more they remain Insane"

I've also found this with other double het combos....some weird looking "normals"

LOL

Kerby...

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Lonesome Valley Reptiles
www.lonesomevalleyreptiles.com
Specializing In California Kingsnakes

to me Kerby.Thats really cool.A tweener per say.LOL....
Did you see any visual double homos from the dbl-het breedings? and if you did what do they look like?

L8r