Ivory/Albino Paradox? Chimera? What is this thing?

[nicolerc]

Slight tangent but I've got a pair of brilliant white , Luicistic Texas Rat snakes but the female has red eyes and the male seems to have blue eyes ... What's going on there I wonder ?

That one is easy enough: your female is both leucistic and amelanistic. Often called "pink eyed leucistic."

This is crazy! I definitely see the ivory. Maybe it's the lighting but the eyes look darker than ivory eyes, which can look black but are a very dark blue with dark red pupils. Those eyes look more like super fire eyes to me. But the orange pattern on white looks like albino!

Any chance the dam could be fire too?

The eyes are very dark with red pupils. I do not believe the dam could be fire.

For my money, what you have is a case where both parents were carrying the Albino allele and your animal is most likely a chimera. The Albino sections are AlbinoYB (which also accounts for the yellow head) and the Ivory portions are just that: Ivory. And the dark eyes are derived from them originating from Ivory lineage cells


With regard to the siblings, was there Fire in any of them and/or were any of them WT? Just want to see if we can pin down who exactly dad was.

This is close to what we believe as well, but it's obviously less likely that both parents are hidden hets rather than just one or the other. I'm not sure if there were fire siblings or not, but it shouldn't matter if there were. She was bred to both males and siblings could have been sired by either.

wow it's beautiful! ISOWANTTHAT! Paradox/Chimera's are awesome! u guys at GR aer producing some unique animals:

I thought of that highway too when I saw this hatchling, so I went back and checked the records but they aren't directly related (different sires/dams).