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clear sheds - odd ?

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i've never had a visually normal snake shed clear - but i have a bunch shedding completely clear from this years batch. years back i bred a pied het to an albino het producing (please..i know, i know) bad odds for double hets. when these offspring were bred back to each other i got a handful a few albinos (lucky that), and a bunch of others that look normal pastel and shed clear.

does anyone have any idea why this might be? are hypos the only morph that shed clear? do hypo hets shed clear? not that believe it possible to get hypos out of this pairing, but something interesting is up with these sheds. i'll hold on to them all i think.

thanks all, any insights you can offer are appreciated.

-paul buckley
 
As far as I know hypos are the only ones that shed clear besides albinos.
Any pics of the snakes? Do you know if any of the animals you bred were possible het hypos?

This is a female who sheds clear. I have no history on her but hope she proves out for me. This year was her first breeding but I screwed up and left the eggs unattended when I went on vacation and lost them all. I have no idea if she is a true hypo or not.

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i'm at work at the moment but when i get home - midnight (arghh) i'll try and snap a few and post. the grandparents were sold to me as hets before hypos were big in the market, so i doubt any of those genetics slipped in unawares of the breeders (vpi and kahl) that sold me the snakes. i believe that they carry only the possibility of albino and pied. but if that is the case, then i cannot explain the clear sheds - hence the conundrum. -paul
 
clear sheds

here are two images above and belly. the pink and orange are not coming through and the three spots on the head are more distinct. i'd say "pretty but normal" myself, but that still leaves the oddity of the clear sheds.

thanks for any thoughts.

-paul
 

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