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!

> Well, if it has pink/red eyes(hard for me to tell) then it HAS to be an albino(amel). There is no way it could be a leucistic without having normal dark eyes. Only recently has the "pink-eyed" leucistic mutation been available. That being said, regardless of what was said earlier about the small possibility of it being of "bubblegum" lineage(albino yellow, albino Everglades Rat, and albino Black Rat, that seems extremely doubtful. I think it is simply an EXTREMELY pale "old-school" albino, that has an exceptionallly subdued amount of the usual "underlying" pigmentation as seen in most amel Black Rats.
That is probably the bottom line here on what that animal is. One thing is for SURE!!!,......that is a very nice example!

As said before, if it has pinkish/red eyes, then IT IS an albino, and not a leucistic,....especially with the small hint of pattern that it displays.

Some test breeding to an amel will prove this out. And like you mentioned, breeding the animal to a normal Black Rat will produce ALL HETS for it's unique trait.

I like that snake a lot!


~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

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