I've got a few questions about hypos that I haven't quite found an answer for through research. I figure it works relatively the same in all species but I'm focused mainly on how it shows up in Cal kings.
My California kingsnake Eir has shown a pretty dramatic switch in color. She's coming up on 2 years old this June-July and losing a lot of her black pigment.
Now, are hypos ever born dark and lose pigment later? From what I've seen of rainbow boas, that doesn't seem to be the case. It seems like it's pretty obvious what genetics are at play once the babies are born and shed a couple times. However, the way she's changing in color is making her look more and more hypo. She also has grey-blue eyes, though I didn't think anything of that before other than it was pretty. When I bought her, she was pretty close in color to the high white adult they had. She was nearly that black and white but now she's chocolate and cream. Her belly is extremely yellow but it doesn't show up on my camera. We're talking at least aspen chip yellow.
Here's some pics. Sorry for the low quality baby pics.
Bonus belly pic in my attempt to show the yellow. [Attempt and failure] Her under tail stripe is almost a chocolatey lavender color.
Is it possible that she is hypo and wasn't visually showing it until she grew? It doesn't seem to be the way hypo works to me but she's certainly starting to look very hypo lately.
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