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My friend found this in the northern San Joaquin Valley a few years back. We were thinking it was a hypomelanistic snake but after seeing pics of the McGurty line annectens we are starting to think it is an albino. It is a female that we bred to a striped male that was het for amelanism (same line I posted below). Assuming her trait is genetic, it is definitely recessive in nature as we got all normals with half being striped as expected. If it is an albino it is certainly different from my other line of albino Pacifics.

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Rick Staub

That is awesome Rick, very beautiful.

That is a beautiful animal. She doesn't look like how I expect albinos to look, though, as her pupils seem to be black and all the albinos I've seen have red pupils.

That looks like a hypo to me, definitely not an amel.

What do oher "normals" from that locale look like?

reako45

>>What do oher "normals" from that locale look like?

I do not have any pics of Valley pits, but this het baby has more of a Valley look to it.

Here is a striper from the same pairing (het for above hypo hopefully). Not nearly as bold of a pattern as we usually get in the albino line but a nice golden color.

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Rick Staub

That is one awesome T /hypo pacific (and I see normals all the time)!!!!!!