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I am trying to get some ideas for my breeding season(not corns.) And I was wondering if there are any pics of t pos albino x anery(T pos. Snow) corns? I have searched for pics, but have found nothing.

Thanks for the help,
Jon

Well, that would make the snake what is commonly known in the hobby as a "lavender", but nobody really knows the genetic dynamics of what exactly is responsible for producing these colors in ALL the different types of snakes. There are so many different morphs of corn, and so many of these are not well understood at all either. Many people in the hobby always "assume" that because a snake has a chocolate, or purplish lavender tone instead of what would normally be black with dark ruby-red eyes that it is because tyrosinase is still present, but the melanocyte cannot properly synthesize it into melanin. But to be quite honest, a laboratory "dopa" test would have to be performed to detect the presence of tyrosinase before this could ever be concluded.

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Thanks man.. That is exactly what I was looking for. I figured the corn guys had something.

Thanks again,
Jon

Did I understand your response correctly that you are saying Lavenders are a T positive Albino x anery? You are correct in the last part of your response that only lab testing can be proof positive for detecting Tyronise (sp?), but Lavender is not a combo morph, it is a single simple recessive trait.

Maybe I misunderstood.

dc

I wonder if the Lava corns are somehow T positive. It is not an albino trait but more like a hypo since the originals had regular eyes. I know amelanistics are produced now too. The area where the black is that is usually more white in amels is like a purplish color. It looks like some black pigment is being produced like in T positives but this is in a hypo gene. I do not know if anyone has crossed the lava into snow and if they did if it would still look any different or not. I am not sure how the lava gene would work in a double morph like a snow. This would make it a triple morph.
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