Morphology:
- VPI Axanthic
- Recessive
Axanthic: While albinism is the lack of all melanin or pigment color, Axanthics only lack red or yellow or both. Axanthics are a recessive mutation that produces a snake that is varying shades of grey, black and brown. Although most “brown out” as an adult, there are some lines that hold their color more than others. Axanthics are a color mutation only and thus will have the varying patterns as a normal ball python.thought to be the Fire gene. However, its one difference is that it has excessive blushing. It acts as an enhancing ge