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To be lavendar there Must be blue and RED. But if there is red then it can not be anery, right?

Everyone else in the world may know this already, and I am just now catching up to speed, but my thought is that the lavendar is what is left when the space becomes devoid of color...... ultimately having nothing to do with the anery mutation.

When there is NO color, what is left is the lavendar. I see it most prominently in anery tail saddles, but it is in albinos as well. Generally as the red color in all the saddles fades, presumably if the albino were a normal, the red would actually be covered up by melanin that fills in as the boa grows into adulthood. But, since in an albino that melanin can not be there, what is left is lavendar.

Maybe I am out in left field on this one. Any thoughts?

Jesse Van Atta
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maybe anythrism is just a reduction in color, much like hypomelanism is just an extreme reduction in black, so the left over lavender that you see is just the small amount of color that is left. just a thought
eliot stone
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Well, it does not have to be pigment, per se, it could just be a beautiful refraction from iridiphores.
But Eliot's theory is clearly also a possibility.
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