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Not very familiar with all the terms/names of the seemingly hundreds of morphs that exist with cal kings (Sorry but Most of my kings are easterns). I hatched these two along with 8 others last year, but the others are already identified, (I ended up with 7 different varieties and none looked like their mother, a nornmal coastal sripe). The father was a normal 60white/40brown coastal banded. What would you call the little guy in the center - a whitish albino (with nice, skinny, weird looking bands)? (I know the other is a regular, yellowish albino). I always thought that albinos show yellow & pink? Thanks

Sorry, never had albinos before,

Zee

I am not sure what they are but they're both very nice looking. The one may possibly be a Lavender Albino Banana? Just a guess. I am sure someone will be able to help you identify those, I think they're very cool looking. Tom Stevens

The smaller one in the middle could possibly be a desert phase banded albino. The other one with the yellow could be a lavender albino depending on its size. If it is a yearling and still showing that color it is a lavender. Normal albinos lighten up and the ground color turns white as adults. If it is not a lavender it is a coastal phase albino.
Just my .02 cents. I am sure Kerby from Lonesome Valley Reptiles can tell you what they are. Maybe he will chime in and help you/us out.
John Lassiter

BTW, they are very nice loooking calikings.

Zee,

Extremely nice looking cali kings!! So nice infact, that I'm going to have to drop you an email about them lol.

Like Jlassiter said, if the whitish one is bigger and still has the color, it's a lavender albino. My first guess would be a normal albino that didn't get it's colors yet. Maybe a HYBINO, I don't exactly know what a Hybino is, I never paid much attention to them, but I figure a Hypo Albino is a hybino lol.

Nice snakes.

Also, your little "odd creation", the whitish one, does have an odd pattern, but an albino cali that I bought a couple months ago, has the exact same pattern. Maybe in a couple years, if their sexes are opposite, we can see what kind of offspring we could get from them?

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Lavenders as babies are really purplish in color.

The albinos differ, as their normal counterparts do. If your 2 albinos were normal looking, you would have a black and white and a brown and yellow.

Nice cal kings, but IMO both are regular albinos.

Kerby...

Is the whiter one a desert phase albino and the other a coastal?
John Lassiter

But with all of the generic breeding in the past 15 years it is hard to "classify" call kings in relation to locale, unless someone knows the direct lineage.

Unless I have a known locale, I do not use the terms "coastal" or "desert", instead I use physical descriptive words.

Kerby...

Thanks Kerby. I know what you mean.
John

Like this.

Kerby...

Kerby...

You know what I haven't seen is a white on white striped cal king. Not a reverse stripe but a normal desert phase striper that is amel. Anyone got those.
John Lassiter

I appreciate the input. I think I have two albinos - a white one and a yellow one! I guess the parents were het for albinism, since neither is an albino. Once again, thanks for all your information!
Here's a pic of another sibling of the two from above. I've had all kinds of different morphs/patterns come from this single clutch, LOL!

Zee