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Hallo,

I have a very nice lavender striped male, but I didn't find in Europe a female for him. Is the lavender striped an albino, so I would breed him to an albino striped female. Are the hatchlings then albino striped or normal striped ?

Thanks for your help.

Greetings from Germany

Karsten

www.snakeguy.de

Hello from America

You will get normal hatchlings, possibly striped ones at that. This assumes neither snake is het for the other mutation.

Amelanistic (the white color amels) is a different mutation from lavender. People have bred them together, and then back to one or the other. It hasn't produced anything interesting really, meaning anything different from the parents.

In addition, the term "Lavender" can be applied to 2 different strains of Cal kings. On strain has a darker purplish color as hatchlings and the other has a light lavender color. The two strains are separate mutations genetically. Some people call them hypos, some just use the term albino.

So that makes 3 different forms of "albino" in Cal kings. There is a 4th one too now that I think about it. It is called "blue-eyed blonde" and may or may not be the same as the darker strain of lavender.