Hypo Everglades -hets and hypo pics

[Stockwell]

Below is a couple pics of recently shed hypomelanistic everglades rats, shown with normal phenotype heterozygous babies.
It's amazing how much these will change as they become bright orange adults. Even the black hets will end up as orange everglades but they will have melanin including the black dorsal stripes which will be completely absent in the hypos



Above, a het with a hypo baby showing the significant effect of the hypo gene
below is the hypo father of all the babies shown above

[Katt]

Fantastic!!!

Love the dad!

I actually really like the pattern of the babies too.

[Vanan]

[thunder]

i noticed that the baby and dad both have red eyes. perhaps this is in fact amelanism?

[Scales Zoo]

Yeah, either those babies are an extreme for of hypo, or they are something even more special. Insane color difference!

Thanks for the pics unkie.....

Ryan

[Stockwell]

Well years back they were in fact called Albino everglades, until true albinos were found.
I have sent pics of these animals to Kathy Love and she confirms that these are Hypos.She used to breed them years ago and mine might in fact be sourced back to her. Hardly anyone seems to breed the hypos these days, which is a shame because as orange serpents go, there aren't many nicer.
The eyes might look red in that pic but they have some pigment and as adults the eyes are more orangish. Adults also have some very slight amounts of melanin which is apparent in the faint cross bands on the male above. You're right though, they sure look like albinos

[Katt]

I thought I'd vouch for the het hypos. They'll grow up to beautiful looking snakes.

Here's my normal het for nothing glades produced by Crimsonking. Pics are a bit bright due to flash, but you can see his beauty regardless.

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/Kattia/Rats/gladesbod.jpg">

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/Kattia/Rats/gladesbod2.jpg">

[Simon]

Awesome animals~
these little ones are really cute~
the pic with the het and hypo one is really nice since the het one's head is all buffed up like its really tough~

Awesome pictures and great looking animals~

[vanderkm]

Great pics Roy - love the comparison shots as they develop with these species.

With all the re-thinking of some of the hypo genes in corns nowadays - some that were hypo are now getting serious consideration as albino (maybe T+) - I really wonder about these - wonder whether there isn't more of a continuum between hypomelanism and amelanism than is usually recognized in our thinking of all these things as simple recessives.

These hypos are spectacular as adults - and very lovely as babies even - you can see such a difference! Looking forward to more photos as they grow,

mary v.

[Stockwell]

I've read recently that hypomelanism is related to amelanism as both are pigment deffects or combinations there of.
Apparently full amelanism can involve defects on several gene loci
and that hypomelanism might simply involve one less defect, so hypomelanism is almost amelanism in some cases depending on the actual number of defective loci involved in the expression of the mutation.
I've also read that hypo animals can give rise to full amelanism through successive generations of line breeding.