There are several morphs that make up the blue eyed leucistic complex. Any BP that inherits both a gene from their mother in this complex, and a gene from their father in this complex, will end up being some variation of blue eyed leucistic. The possible morphs that make up this complex are:
-Lesser
-Butter
-Mojave
-Moca
-Phantom
-Mystic
-Russo het leucistic
-Special
-Bamboo
There is a different complex, black eyed leucistic complex, that works a similar way producing a white animal, but has black eyes unless another morph lightens the eyes on top of what is making them white. The morphs in this complex are:
-Fire
-Lucifer
-Sulfur
-Disco
-Vanilla
-Thunder
-Coffee
-Flame
-Ember
-Mota
-Brite
What you have is an animal who has some genes from both complexes, which makes things especially confusing and difficult to identify. Sounds like according to what the breeder knows, she definitely is Super Lesser (so no possibility of Mojave in there because there are only two spots genes from this complex can go, and Lesser is in both of them), and she has at least one copy of Fire. The other spot on the black-eyed leucistic complex could be either Normal*, a second copy of Fire, or Vanilla, but there is no way to tell by looking at her. Blacklight can sometimes help see subtle differences between morphs in white snakes, but having genes from both complexes working together to remove pigment makes is even more difficult than an ordinary BEL. Pastel and Enchi are morphs in different locations of the DNA, which the BEL is making impossible to see are or aren't present by looking at her. Once you breed her and get hatchlings, you should be able to start narrowing down exactly what she does and doesn't have.
*Normal isn't just one gene, it's basically what we call all the different genes that make up a wild-type animal. In this context, I'm talking about a very specific location of the DNA (black eyed complex) where it may have the type of gene Normals have here or it may have a morph gene.
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