Coral snow question

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

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...ps3d00edbf.jpg
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...ps58071a8a.jpg

Wow very pretty!

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Originally Posted by 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?

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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! :D

Wow, cool snake!

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