LAVENDER ALBINO BROOK’S KINGSNAKES
An unusual albino trait that undergoes an ontogenetic color change from hatchling to adult. Hatchlings and juveniles have an overall lavender body ground color with mid-dorsal yellow banding, red speckling along the sides and extensive yellow speckling on the dorsal and ventral surfaces. The eye color in hatchlings to adults remains ruby red, similar to the ruby red eye color of lavender albino California Kingsnakes. As juveniles mature to adult size the lateral red speckling disappears and the lavender ground color is partially or totally replaced by orange and yellow coloration. The result are brilliantly colored adult albinos with significant variation in their overall appearance, some appearing hypomelanistic with retained lavender color blended with orange. This trait began from a pair of normal colored wild caught adults that were most likely from the Lake Okeechobee, Florida area. It was discovered that the unrelated adult pair were both heterozygous for the albino lavender gene when a single lavender albino was produced from them in 1994.

DOUBLE HETEROZYGOUS LAVENDER
ALBINO X AXANTHIC BROOK’S KINGSNAKES
These are the result of breeding a lavender albino Brook’s to an axanthic Brook’s with the double hetero offspring having normal brooksi coloration. Ideally, breeding a pair of double heteros is the pathway to producing a ‘snow’ Brook’s Kingsnake; an animal lacking yellow, black and red; resulting in virtually all white coloration and residual non-colored pattern marking outlines. This ‘snow’ breeding has not taken place yet at the time of this writing. The mathematical probability of a double hetero breeding to produce a ‘snow’ is 1 snow for every 16 hatchlings, with the additional probability of 3 of 16 hatchlings being lavender albino and 3 of 16 hatchlings being axanthic, the remaining 9 of 16 hatchlings having various heterozygous combinations.