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Can anyone working with lavender and albino cal kings tell me if these are separate genes like the T pos and T negative in other species - so that if you bred a lavender to an albino you would get all normals het for both albino genes? If this is the case, what happens with those that are double homozygous - does one mask the other or does this produce a different coloration.

Can anyone post pictures of adults for comparison of the coloration - the lavender babies look quite different, but photos I have seen of adults are hard to tell apart from normal albinos.

thanks,

mary v

The lavender albinos have darker red ruby eyes and they are slightly darker than the normal regular albinos. There is also a strain california kingsnake that has blue eyes too. If you breed a lavender albino california kingsnake to a normal albino you would get double hets or possibly even a few hypos. I have heard that if you breed two albinos that are not compatiable
genetically then you would get hets or double hets. If you want to get a certain kind of of albino breed the same kind of albinos together.

heres a link to the lavender blue eyed blonde california kingsnakes.

http://www.vividreptiles.com/pages/calking.html

heres a pic of my male lavender albino california kingsnake
he came from Renegade Reptiles.

john

Thanks John,

Very attractive snake. This one looks like the young lavenders I have seen - is it still under a year of age or did it keep this color into adulthood. I still am not clear whether the lavender is a hypo effect or a true albino. Thanks for the photo and the link,

mary v.

removing melanin, but not necessarily other darker pigments.

They are tyrosinase postive. The one in the picture is still under a year old. He's growing like a weed lol. I feed them every 5-7days. I have 2 unrelated pairs of lavender albino california kingsnakes. I plan on breeding them in 2007.
Two of them have kind of broken banded pattern which is cool cuz I never seen a lavender albino with that kind of pattern.
I would like to post pictures of them when they grow some more just for comparison to the male lavender albino. Just to show the difference of patterns. As for the lavender blue eyed blonde california kingsnakes I only know of a few people that breed them. I don't know if they are a type of albino or not.
But the lavender albinos like I have are less common than the normal albinos.

john

very nice snake.
Bianca

Thanks for your kind words and compliments about my male lavender albino california kingsnake. I wonder what would you get if you bred a lavender blue eyed blonde california kingsnake to a lavender albino california kingsnake or a lavender blue blue eyed blonde to a normal albino california kingsnake? I wander what the offspring would look like.
my aol screename is electricbluescat if you want to chat sometime on aol im

john