Doug, are you saying you don't think it's an albino either?

Actually, that's why I thought it was leucistic at first. But the guy who has it told me he thought it was albino and that he'd had it for twenty years. And now he wants to produce albino black rats and thinks he needs pure black, black rats.

So, if he crosses his whitish snake with a black rat, he's going to get hets of whatever the mutation is. Assuming the whitish snake is a black rat, the hets would be for something whitish black rat, correct? All I have to do is point him to some all black, black rats. I'm not going to try to explain any more than we already have, LOL!

Cheers...TC



>>No way a leucistic(or pink-eyed), and yes, does resemble many pale colored "bubblegums". Also, many have been bred with extremely varied degrees of coloration, such as the very pale, almost undescernable patterned one(like the one in question, to extremely vivid orange/pink variations with bold patterns, to solid pinks/yellows. Also, they have been around for many years since Bill Love first produced them around 1989 or 90.
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>> It is possible however that it can still be a very pale amel that did NOT have much in the way of other underlying pigment(s) to display after the absents of melanin. But most amels have a MUCH more visible blotch pattern.
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>> ~Doug
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