Let me rephrase because apparently some people are not understanding what I'd meant to get across.

We do know that stress can change a snakes color - we know that being gravid hormones, etc. can change a snakes color - we know that often times gravid females whether imported or cb change color to have an axanthic or ghostly appearance - but prior to or after laying their eggs return to normal - and this is not a genetic condition - however we see the ads in the classifieds that these wc females are these morphs - most likely they are not anything other than normal girls and will return to their normal looking colors after laying their eggs.

We also know that stress (in various forms) on the mother during her "pregnancy" and/or stress on the egg can cause anomalies in what would otherwise be a normal hatchling. That is to say - even tho these WC hatchlings, captive hatch hatchlings or even some oddball captive bred hatchlings look odd different etc. - they are really genetically just normals until proven otherwise.

Now with as many oddballs that we see - very few actually turn out to be genetic. It's just something to keep in mind and think about before ploping down $2K on a gravid "desert ghost".