Coral snow question

[bad-one]

I was wondering if a snow boa from coral lines would be influenced (color/pattern wise) by this despite not having the red pigment of an albino?

For fun, here's a couple shots of my yearling female from today in natural light (this is her dark phase) :p

[Crazymonkee]

Wow very pretty!

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[Evenstar]

I was wondering if a snow boa from coral lines would be influenced (color/pattern wise) by this despite not having the red pigment of an albino?

The short answer to your question is, no. However, many albinos and snows still show some color. Albinos tend to have an overall yellow tone with some orange patterning - they are not an animal that is truly lacking in pigment altogether, they are just lacking black pigmentation (melanin). A snow is an albino anery. Anerythrism is the reduction of red pigmentation - not the elimination of it. This is why you will see many snows yellow out as adults - there is still a bit of red pigmentation there which shows through as the animal ages. SO, it stands to reason that an albino animal with increased red pigmentation, such as a coral or lipstick line, would make a darker, more yellow snow.

**Hope that made sense - I'm a bit off tonight. LoL!

[Reinz]

Wow, cool snake!