Clear Ball Python

Been reading up on True Ghosts (Hypo x Axanthic). I know that hypos lack black pigmentation...so I was wondering if a hypo was crossed with a super cinny would it come out colorless...or clearlike...or maybe even white?

Also... now that I think of this can you mix a super co-dom with a recessive trait?

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Originally Posted by mricyfire

Been reading up on True Ghosts (Hypo x Axanthic). I know that hypos lack black pigmentation...so I was wondering if a hypo was crossed with a super cinny would it come out colorless...or clearlike...or maybe even white?

Also... now that I think of this can you mix a super co-dom with a recessive trait?

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Super Pastel Orange Ghost, and a few others....so to answer your question yes you can.;)

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Originally Posted by mricyfire

Been reading up on True Ghosts (Hypo x Axanthic). I know that hypos lack black pigmentation...so I was wondering if a hypo was crossed with a super cinny would it come out colorless...or clearlike...or maybe even white?

Also... now that I think of this can you mix a super co-dom with a recessive trait?

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hypos don't completely remove the black ... they reduce it ... the definition for "hypo" is ... Hypo-: Prefix meaning "low, under, beneath, down, below normal" ... so a hypomelanisitc animal has reduced melanin.

A super cinny hypo would have a grayish or extremely "black faded" appearance ... think more like a black animal that always looks like it's in shed.

And yes, a homozygous co-dom can be mixed with a homozygous recessive.

Hope this helps.

-adam

SPOG...omg how could I forget?

thanx guys...so let me get my istics correct

Leucistic - Lacks all pigment (All white)
Anerythristic - Lacks red?
Hypomelanistic - Reduced melanin (Ghosts)
Hypermelanistic - Increased melanin (The really dark ones)
Amelanistic - Lacks melanin (Albino)

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Originally Posted by mricyfire

SPOG...omg how could I forget?

thanx guys...so let me get my istics correct

Leucistic - Lacks all pigment (All white)
Anerythristic - Lacks red?
Hypomelanistic - Reduced melanin (Ghosts)
Hypermelanistic - Increased melanin (The really dark ones)
Amelanistic - Lacks melanin (Albino)

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Leucistic- lacks all color and pattern, but it is not totally white, usually when younger they will have a pinkish color to them.

anerythristic is like a black albino, it lacks of red yellow and orange pigments.

hypo hyper and amel are right

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Originally Posted by Kagez28

Leucistic- lacks all color and pattern, but it is not totally white, usually when younger they will have a pinkish color to them.

anerythristic is like a black albino, it lacks of red yellow and orange pigments.

hypo hyper and amel are right

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Not true. They still have yellow pigment. And some cases anerys have known to have red in them. If an anery ball is anything like an anery corn, than that aplies to the ball too.

I think the trick to point out here is that there are varying degrees to which each melanin trait is expressed in different animals. :D

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Originally Posted by mricyfire

Leucistic - Lacks all pigment (All white)

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Just to clarify a bit. Actually a Leucistic animal has pigment, hence the black or blue eyes. What is believed to be occuring in a Leucistic animal is that it is lacking Chromatophores, which are the cells in the skin that hold pigment. The pigment is there, but the skin does not hold it.

At least that is my understanding.