Lavender Albino Ball Python
peer reviewedOCA2recessive
Albino with a lavender-grey background rather than white.
How it inherits
- One copy
- One copy shows nothing at all. The animal looks ordinary and is called a carrier, or “het”.
- Two copies
- Two copies, one from each parent, are needed before it appears.
Lavender Albino carrier × Lavender Albino carrier
Four ways the two can meet.
1 in 4het Lavender Albino
1 in 4het Lavender Albino
1 in 4Lavender Albino
1 in 4Normal
- het Lavender Albino50%
- Lavender Albino25%
- Normal25%
A pale box is an animal that shows the morph. These are the odds for each egg on its own, not a promise about a clutch.
What this rests on
A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph in the gene OCA2.
What happens if you breed it
Every pairing involving Lavender Albino, worked out gene by gene — including what the clutch can be and anything documented about the animals it produces.