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In a post below you referred to the hypo eyes of a snake. Could you please explain what you meant by that. Can you tell a hypo by looking at its eyes? Just curious, thanks
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What he was showing the black pupil for was just to prove the snake was not completely amelanistic, it did have black pupils.

I could be wrong though:-P
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Dianne
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Do I think that hypo eyes are specific to hypos? No. Iced Goddess is right, I was just showing that that male isn't an amel, even though he lacks black markings. The thing that makes pupils black is the melanin in the retina. Amelanistic snakes have no melanin in the retina, so light is not absorbed by melanin, but rather reflected by tissues and appears red.

In my own snakes, I've noticed that hypomelanistic individuals do have lighter irises (colored part of the eye) than their normal counterparts, but this trait is by no means definitive or limited to just hypos.
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~~~Hurley

I get it. As far as the red eyes in amels I always thought the lack of melanin caused the blood in the eyes to be visable thus red eyes. I'm usually wrong though. Thanks, Jim
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1,0 snow
1,0 amel

1,0 aney stripe motley
0,1 normal
0,1 anery
0,1 motley
1,1 oketee
1,1 tx rat
4,4 ball python
1,1 dumerils boa
1,0 columbian red tail boa
1,1 green iguana
1,0 leopard gecko
1,3 dogs
freezer full of mice & rats

But i wonder.... if albinos snakes have no melanin in the retina and light is not absorbed by melanin, but rather reflected by tissues and appears red, do they have the same vision of things than normal snakes?!

Thanks!!