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This is a Female Texas Rat that i collected in south Louisiana.
We bred this snake to an Albino,which produced all normal colored babies in 03.
Last year we bred her to a normal wild Caught high red male,producing nice looking normal babies.
This season we should get to breed it back to one of it's 03 offspring.
My question is Hypo or Lav. Albino or ????
Thanks ROB

Did you breed that to the red eyed albino with all the red on the body or the T albino (hypo?).

South Mountain Reptiles

Don
The original breeding was to an Albino,with no red.
Thanks Rob

I guess your next trial is the "other" albino. Will someone tell me if that other one is considered T albino or hypo. There used to be contraversy about it and I haven't been around enough lately to know what the current terminology is.

Your snake is amelanistic. It does not produce the pigment for black or brown. The are two genes that produce this type of animal. That is to say that you can breed two amelanistic snakes and get nornal offspring.

You say that you breed your snake to an albino before. What color was your snake albino for? Red/Yellow, or Brown/black? If it was missing brown pigment, and all your offspring were normal, then those offspring are het for both forms of the amelanistic genes. If your snake was missing the red pigment, then those snakes would be het for one of the amenanistic genes and het for the anerythism.

With this information, you should be able to figure out what back cross you want to try.

My guess would be T pos. so i would get it tested.