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It's been about a year since I posted any pics of my leucistic, Ichabod. The first pic is one I took of him recently at about 5". The other two pics are of him about 9 months ago. You can see his shell is turning a light blonde color as he grows and his skin seems to have lightened up too.

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1.1 Womas, 1.0 Australian Water Python, 1.0 Australian Olive Python, 1.0 Cape York Spotted Python,1.0 Albino Green Burmese, 1.1 Loxocemus bicolor (New World "Pythons" ), 1.1 Hog Island Boas,1.0 Peruvian Red-Tail Boa, 0.1 Brazilian Red- Tail Boa, 0.0.1 North American Wood Turtle, 0.0.2 European Pond Turtles, 1.0 Leucistic Alligator Snapper, 0.0.1 FL Red Belly, 0.0.1 Concentric Diamondback Terrapin, 0.0.1 Marine Toad, 0.1.1 "Flame" Crested Geckos, 1.0 Yellow Ackie

I've seen albino snappers that are bright yellow with red eyes and leucistic alligators that are white with blue or black eyes. How come alligator snappers don't look like that? Are you sure that it's not hypomelanistic?

No one is really sure what these are. A lot of times you will see them available as "pink skins" when they are young. These animals basically turn white with black stripes on their faces when they mature. I bought this one from John Richards last year. There is a picture of one of his adult "leucistics" in the article he wrote on page 45 of the August 2004 issue of Reptiles Magazine. There are a few members on this forum that have these in their collections. But no one is quite sure what to make of them. I call them leucistics for lack of a better term and that is what the breeder described it as. His eyes are white rather than black or blue, which is not characteristic of most leucistic animals I know of. But it is definately an unusual color that appears to be genetic, not just a random occurance.
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1.1 Womas, 1.0 Australian Water Python, 1.0 Australian Olive Python, 1.0 Cape York Spotted Python,1.0 Albino Green Burmese, 1.1 Loxocemus bicolor (New World "Pythons" ), 1.1 Hog Island Boas,1.0 Peruvian Red-Tail Boa, 0.1 Belem Brazilian Red- Tail Boa, 0.0.1 North American Wood Turtle, 0.0.2 European Pond Turtles, 1.0 Leucistic Alligator Snapper, 0.0.1 FL Red Belly, 0.0.1 Concentric Diamondback Terrapin, 0.0.1 Marine Toad, 0.1.1 "Flame" Crested Geckos, 1.0 Yellow Ackie