Axanthic? What do you think?

Wild caught male imported last year. Shown next to a normal for comparison:

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Will attempt breeding him this year. What do you think?

Hmm. Not sure. He sure is alot grayer and has alot less of the brown and tan in him. But i still see on his back he doesnt completely lack the brown pigment. Hopefully he does give you some axanthic babies though. Goodluck

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Originally Posted by redstormlax12

Hmm. Not sure. He sure is alot grayer and has alot less of the brown and tan in him. But i still see on his back he doesnt completely lack the brown pigment. Hopefully he does give you some axanthic babies though. Goodluck

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If i get babies I'll raise up females to breed back. If it is an axanthic i assume it will be recessive like the other lines :)

Ummm, perhaps not Axanthic..but I wouldn't have minded trying her out with an Albino just to see if she had a recessive gene.

Nice colors on her; good luck:gj:

Why would you only use an albino? That is not the only recessive gene out there and if no albinos were produced that would only prove it is not an albino. It would not however prove there was not another gene at work there such as axanthic, hypo/ghost, Carmel, and any number of others. Not saying it is any of those I listed but seriously breeding it to an albino will not prove that there are no recessive genes at involved with this snake...


Now to the OP beautiful snake I have a female that is VERY close to that one but just a little brighter. I bred her to my pastel this year and will be holding back one male to see what I am playing with. Good luck.

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Originally Posted by broadude

Ummm, perhaps not Axanthic..but I wouldn't have minded trying her out with an Albino just to see if she had a recessive gene.

Nice colors on her; good luck:gj:

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Totally off topic.....but how is she adjusting?

If the owner thinks it is an Axanthic, and I personally do not by the way, then the easiest way to prove it out is by using an Axanthic to breed it to.

It is obviously not an Albino, but using an Albino mate would at least give you Albino Hets as offspring, and by the off chance it is an Axanthic, you could make Snows-which is why I think the one poster said to use an Albino.

It looks more like a burgundy type Hypo to me, I would say not an Axanthic.

Dave

The thing is I'm not going to purchase and raise up multiple lines of axanthics, to waste a female on an unproven male ;)

Call it your dinker project and GO FOR IT!

take a shot of his eyes, the scales above his eyes and his tongue.

It looks a little bit like a browned out SK axanthic I once was offered but I didn't take it. I preffer VPI or the new line of black axanthics. Oh boy, I would be stoked on getting my hands on a black axanthic!

Good luck with your project!

IMO way to much yellow pigment coming through. just looks like a light normal.

no harm in trying to prove it out tho.

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Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser

IMO way to much yellow pigment coming through. just looks like a light normal.

no harm in trying to prove it out tho.

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Thats what i figured. I have an extra normal female left over from my breeding plans so I may as well toss him in with her :)

I do not work with axanthics so I dont know alot about them but when I look at it I see one of 3 things.

Browned out AX
Light normal
Possibly het red?

Only way to know is breed it.

Definitely not a het red, that I know for sure :)

Could be a red axanthic?


The only thing that makes me hesitate is that the blushing has color that an axanthic wouldn't have.

Saw your above post before posting.