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Thought I'd post some pictures I took last September.

First is a male ghost stripe.

This is my female hypo stripe and my male lavender.

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Kent

0.1 Hypomelanistic striped cornsnake
1.0 Lavender cornsnake
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase

And finally my female GBK (sorry wrong forum!), and a little snow corn.

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Kent

0.1 Hypomelanistic striped cornsnake
1.0 Lavender cornsnake
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase

Nice pics man!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Thanks Doug. I don't know if you saw my post in "rat snakes" after your picture of your hypo lavender corn. I was wondering if mine looks hypo to you. He is lighter than alot of pictures of lavenders I have seen (and was as a hatchling also.) I was told by the breeder that he is het for diffused.

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Kent

0.1 Hypomelanistic striped cornsnake
1.0 Lavender cornsnake
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase

Well, to be honest, it is virtually impossible to tell the hypo lav's apart from a normal lavender visually because one never knows if any individual is simply a darker hypo lavender, or a lighter lavender. Degrees of hypomelanism vary greatly, and so can the lavender gene to a certain degree too, so without knowing what the parents were genotypically, you just can't say with any real certainty. The eyes are different on any individual as well. I have seen hypo lavenders with extremely dark ruby-red eyes(like mine), and lavenders with much lighter red eyes as well.

Yes, it can be confusing, but there is just no way to say for absolute.

I certainly can't see all of yours in that pic, but it looks to have fairly deep purplish blotches indicative of a lavender, but it is just togh to say. Don Soderberg said the exact same thing I am a couple of years ago to some posters that were wondering about their animal's too in regards to this.

Can you at least take another vivid full-body shot of it? No guarantee at all, but it might help a little bit *shrug*.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

I will be proving mine out next year to a hypo/het lavender, poss. het anery female, and if I don't produce any hypos in the clutch, as well as visual hypo lav's, I'll know it isn't a hypo lav. Not that I have reason to believe it isn't, but I will know beyond the shadow of a doubt nonetheless..LOL!

And yes, yours does look a LOT like mine from what I could see in the pic on the rat forum, no doubt about it.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

I have some full body shots taken at the same time as the close-ups, but I need to figure out how to re-size them before I can post them.

I plan to breed him to my female hypo stripe this year, if she decides she is interested. It will be interesting to see if they produce any hypos.
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Kent

0.1 Hypomelanistic striped cornsnake
1.0 Lavender cornsnake
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase

Exactly, that will prove things out too, similar to what I'll be doing.

good luck with that project!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com