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Pattern on the shed skin
I read on another thread someone questioning whether a snake had shed 'cklear' and then the poster clarified somethig about the pattern showing or not on the shed skin. I noticed when ours shed last time that the skin had transferred a bit of color pattern and then it dried to a more uniform color. Do some snakes NOT do this? What does it mean?

~~ZinniaZ
2.1.0 ball python-- James Herriot the Spider BP and Paradox, my son's female normal BP, Jack London, het red axanthic
0.1 Blue Beauty-- Anna Sewall
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Re: Pattern on the shed skin
 Originally Posted by ZinniaZ
I read on another thread someone questioning whether a snake had shed 'cklear' and then the poster clarified somethig about the pattern showing or not on the shed skin. I noticed when ours shed last time that the skin had transferred a bit of color pattern and then it dried to a more uniform color. Do some snakes NOT do this? What does it mean?
Hypos shed clear. No pattern on there sheds..
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Re: Pattern on the shed skin
Please define hypo for me...
I have a male normal and when he sheds it shows no pattern, my female normals shed shows a pattern. They are both normal, why the difference in sheds?
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Re: Pattern on the shed skin
 Originally Posted by lenastorms
Please define hypo for me...
I have a male normal and when he sheds it shows no pattern, my female normals shed shows a pattern. They are both normal, why the difference in sheds?
Hypo (aka) ghost. They all shed clear..
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Re: Pattern on the shed skin
 Originally Posted by lenastorms
Please define hypo for me...
I have a male normal and when he sheds it shows no pattern, my female normals shed shows a pattern. They are both normal, why the difference in sheds?
Mine both shed with a pattern.
A hypo is also called a ghost morph. Hope that helps.
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Re: Pattern on the shed skin
That is really cool. Really cool.

~~ZinniaZ
2.1.0 ball python-- James Herriot the Spider BP and Paradox, my son's female normal BP, Jack London, het red axanthic
0.1 Blue Beauty-- Anna Sewall
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Re: Pattern on the shed skin
 Originally Posted by lenastorms
Please define hypo for me...
I have a male normal and when he sheds it shows no pattern, my female normals shed shows a pattern. They are both normal, why the difference in sheds?
A normal will have some brown color on the shed while a ghost/hypo will have an opaque shed.
Here is a link showing the difference.
http://www.vmsherp.com/ImagePages/Ba...tBallSkins.htm
An albino also has a shed similar to a hypo.
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Re: Pattern on the shed skin
 Originally Posted by SPJ
Thanks!
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