Well, to be honest, it is virtually impossible to tell the hypo lav's apart from a normal lavender visually because one never knows if any individual is simply a darker hypo lavender, or a lighter lavender. Degrees of hypomelanism vary greatly, and so can the lavender gene to a certain degree too, so without knowing what the parents were genotypically, you just can't say with any real certainty. The eyes are different on any individual as well. I have seen hypo lavenders with extremely dark ruby-red eyes(like mine), and lavenders with much lighter red eyes as well.

Yes, it can be confusing, but there is just no way to say for absolute.

I certainly can't see all of yours in that pic, but it looks to have fairly deep purplish blotches indicative of a lavender, but it is just togh to say. Don Soderberg said the exact same thing I am a couple of years ago to some posters that were wondering about their animal's too in regards to this.

Can you at least take another vivid full-body shot of it? No guarantee at all, but it might help a little bit *shrug*.


~Doug
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