Shedded Skin of Morphs

This might seem like a stupid question but......does the shedded skin of morphs look different than that of a normal? How different?

I would think that a leucistic or a albino would have shedded skin remains that look much different than a normal?

It seems obvious but.....I dont have any experience with these morphs.

Hypos shed clear...I guess they are missing that particular layer of pigment in that particular layer of skin? Albinos *might* shed clear as well but I'm not certain on that...

My spider shed the other day....definitely has a faint "spider" pattern on it...pretty cool.

Mendel I'm guessing that you'd be able to see a very obvious pattern on the pattern morphs like spider, pieds, stripes, etc.

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

Hypos shed clear...I guess they are missing that particular layer of pigment in that particular layer of skin? Albinos *might* shed clear as well but I'm not certain on that...

My spider shed the other day....definitely has a faint "spider" pattern on it...pretty cool.

Mendel I'm guessing that you'd be able to see a very obvious pattern on the pattern morphs like spider, pieds, stripes, etc.

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Thank you Sir Bradley....I just wanted to make sure my intuition was on track.

Any other input will be appreciated.

There's not really a visible difference with the pastel shed from normal shed, unless you own very dark normals.

Well I know that with hypo's aka ghost's one of the must have's is a clear shed with no pigment. I would assume that a shed from a pure white snake would not carry any dark pigment and that the sheds from an albino would carry only the light yellow/white pigment of that snake. Even with our normals we see sheds of varying color in the sheds.

Is it true that axanthic sheds are clear? Think I read this somewhere, but don't quote me on it.

You can definitely see the pattern on Pied sheds. I wish I would have saved Spirit's the other day .....


Neil

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

Is it true that axanthic sheds are clear? Think I read this somewhere, but don't quote me on it.

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No. My Axanthic's sheds have pattern on them. Albino sheds clear though.

I also have different animals that shed in different thicknesses .... some shed "thin", others are normal .... my hyper mels and some of my ghosts are particularly thin shedders.

-adam

Adam, I'm glad you said that, as I have also noticed that my Hypos and Albino shed very "thin". I've always attributed it to there being a lack or reduction of melanin.
Mendel, my Axanthics and my Albino have pattern on their shed's. The only snakes that I have that shed clear are my Hypos.