It would have been nice to have the other sibs in the same photo for comparison, but I tend to agree with Jorge (A153fish) as well. It seems to be a hypo. The eye issue turning from red to seemingly "black" does seem a bit odd, but I have a t-plus/hypo "moonshine" morph ratsnake that had seemingly stark black pupils do the exact opposite, and turned from what seemed to be very solid black pupils to ruby-red later on.



"After six weeks the etes started to get more pigment and now the eyes are white with black pupils"



BTW, what's a "etes"...



locale-specific "Moonshine" as a young hatchling.....











Same snake later on. They are very deep ruby/bloodred colored in this photo, but it's not clearly seen in this particular photo.



They aren't quite as light as this photo depicts either because of the flash. But they are definitely a deep red, and not black at all.







Here is it's lighter sibling that displayed much lighter pinkish/red eyes right from the beginning....







Same lighter one in above photo as it matured.....







Just for giggles, here is a normal het "moonshine" morph sibling from the two locale-specific S. Carolina parents that produced the above hatchlings.







Now just to make it clear, this definitely is not to say yours is anything remotely close to being the same thing that these are, because they definitely are not natural intergrade "moonshine" rats from S.Carolina as these two are, but rather it's just a simple comparison of things that happen that cannot be easily explained. That's a pretty cool animal you have there, and I would certainly hang onto it and see what it becomes as it matures more.
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