The Blue-Eyed Leucistic Ball Python

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Unless noted pictures from http://www.newenglandreptile.com

This is a Blue-Eyed Leucistic



It seems once a week I see a question somewhere, asking what makes a BEL (Blue-Eyed Leucistic) so mayb this will cut down on this repeated question.

BEL are usually made from a Heterozygous Morph x Heterozygous Morph breeding or you'd already have a BEL or Super phantom

BEL is the homozygous (super) form of multiple morphs, and yes they can be interchanged. You don't need a Mojave x Mojave, you can do Mojave x Lesser, Phantom x Russo Het, or any 2 morphs for that matter (only exception phantom x phantom, they will not make a BEL but a super phantom)

here are the morphs

Mojave



a mojave x mojave breeding usually produces what i'd call a dirty BEL, they sometimes have a pattern, the head usually has markings on it, the white isn't usually a stunning white, but still a white snake with blue eyes, doing a lesser x mojave or anything else x mojave usually cleans the snake up.

Lesser Platinum



I was told a lesser x lesser breeding will produce the most stunning BEL you can get, but thats always going to be a debate.

Butter



Similar looking to the lesser, im told butters keep more of a gold color

Russo Het Leucistic



Doesn't look like the others at all does it? but also a Co-Dom morph that makes BEL and also does when crossed with the other morphs.

Phantom



These are an odd ball in the BEL club because a Phantom x Anything above will produce BEL, but a Phantom x Phantom breeding will produce a Super Phantom.....


i got this picture off a forum, im pretty sure Ralph Davis Reptiles owns the picture

If you want me to add anything let me know, but this should answer the same questions I keep seeing over and over and over.