It's been a slow year for me with my Hondurans and black milks being late and smaller sized clutches but it's not a wash out by any means. And being late doesn't mean I don't have some nice surprises this year.
I'm calling these Hondurans creamsicle albinos. They are also vanishing patterned albinos as well. Essentially, I'd bet they are are hybinos. Both are from the pale line of albinos produced by Terry Dunham 3 or 4 years ago. Terry believed these were likely hybinos based on their overall muted color but could not say for sure. At a minimum they were albinos possibly het for hypo and anery. The mother is really pale whereas the male is slightly brighter. Neither is much in the way of aberrancy but this clutch of five that hatched yesterday has some vanishing pattern.
Anyway, from a genotype perspective, all I know is that this clutch are amelanistic possibly het for hypo and anery (that's what the parents both are) but from a phenotype perspective, some of this clutch definitely would appear to be hybinos (including one tri-color possible hybino). Since I can't 100% from a genotype call them hybinos, I'll call them creamsicle albinos.
Here's two of them. The flash actually made them appear a little brighter than they actually are. We'll see how they look after a shed.
Rob Haneisen


