Lavender Albino or not?

[Alicia]

Axanthic - While albinism is the lack of all melanin or pigment color, Axanthics only lack red or yellow or both. Axanthics are a recessive mutation that produces a snake that is varying shades of grey, black and brown.

I think that one of the normals babies looks to be Axanthic and the lavender albino baby as well. As for the dark eyes on the Lavender Albino see the definition above that states Axanthics can lack both yellow and red.

I need to note, red eyes on an albino are not the result of red pigment. They are the result of the melanin (and other pigments) in the eye being stripped away to review the capillaries beneath. The red color is derived from the animal's now-visible hemoglobin.

That said, I don't have an explanation for the weird, dark-eyed baby, except that it's a lavender albino with its color switched on early. Maybe due to poly genetic factors, maybe due to simple modifiers. Probably the only way to know is to hold the little guy back and breed it. It doesn't look like a lavender snow to me, though. The eyes of a lavender snow are bright ruby-scarlet, and the blotches are noticeably paler on a lav snow than your little guy. Am I saying it can't be? No, I can't. I just call it as it looks on my screen.

The almost greyish baby doesn't quite look axanthic, at least not on my monitor. What it reminds me of, is something that used to be seen from time to time with the old-school faded albinos. The hets would often hatch out looking very axanthic, then color up after a couple sheds. This was a visible marker for the faded trait. Maybe the separate gene(s) for fading got mixed into your lavs somewhere along the line, and the dark-eyed guy is a result?

Anyway. Two cents. Best,