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This male is two years old. I got him from someone who keeps a number of morphs in a communal cage, so it's hard to know what the sire was and what he may be het for. I have looked up pics of various morphs but haven't seen an albino with so little white and such a peachy color. What would you call him?

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Kevin

An albino with so little white is often referred to as a sunglow.

The only gene at play is amel (though hypo may be there too) - the reduction of borders is the result of selective breeding and is not a single gene.
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Well, if it was kept communally, and you aren't absolutely CERTAIN of it's exact genetic lineage, then all you can go by is what it looks like visually(phenotype), which is definitely amelanistic(albino). But it's virtually impossible to say anything beyond that. It basically looks like a nice "normal" amel to me,....and as "FunkyRes" has also mentioned, an amelanistic animal with no, or very little white being displayed is known these days as a "sunglow". However, in my opinion, it really doesn't meet the criteria to be called a sunglow either. It could easily have some other genetics floating around in it's lineage though, but by going on strictly "looks", which is all you really CAN do in this case, I would simply call it what it definitely is,.....an amel(albino) cornsnake.

Below is a photo of a snake that fits the coined name "sunglow". However, this animal was produced long before the sunglow name ever existed. I hand-picked this male from a clutch of normal looking albino corns, and this one stood out from the rest. It displays ZERO white on it's body, which was quite unusual 18 or so years ago.

best regards, ~Doug

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

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It's mother was a normal looking albino, but there were multiple males (and females) within the same cage. The sire could have been a snow, ghost, anery, or charcoal and I have no idea what they were all het for. I am kind of curious as to what hodgepodge his offspring may may look like in another year. His lack of white was not as noticable as a baby. He was so small he almost looked transparent. I am really taken by the peach/ red color as well, which the camera doesn't quite bring out.
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Kevin

My female Albino has less white than that, Almost non existent, That looks to me like a normal Albino.
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