#axanthic

[leotide]

Little carpet python anatomy!

A fun challenge and learning experience from 2020 😊

[comradeacerbus]

Oh lawd he watchin

[i-identify-hognose-morphs]

Axanthic

@snugglesquiggle

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

Boba was very brave! He came out to have a look at what happened to his water even though I was still sat in front of his enclosure. What a good boy!

[ID: Two pictures of Boba the black and brown ball python. In the first he's directly facing the camera with his head poking out from his hide. In the second he has his head over the water bowl and he's flicking his tongue]

[thevivarium]

Our sweet boy Nag enjoying the very invasive but very pretty flowers. https://www.morphmarket.com/.../pythons/ball-pythons/949335

[i-identify-hognose-morphs]

Snow (albino + axanthic) conda

This is Sakura's castle.

Sometimes she likes to sit on the top, or blelele out the window or doorway.

Today she has chosen to be the dragon in her own dungeon, where she can lurk and peek out at the world from the abyss.

Oh!! The dragon emerges!

And it's breathing fire! Aaahhh!!!

[loveletterworm]

feel like i straight up forgot how to draw him why's he look so strange. Who is this

[trans-basculin]

a guy,,,a dude,

[pasta5284]

you have a little hognose?!? I was just looking into getting one rly soon!!

yes!! i technically have two but the second one is a friend's i'm just looking after for now. theyre rly great snakes! is there a specific morph you were looking at?

[i-identify-hognose-morphs]

Snow (albino + axanthic)

Astarion has grown a lot since I got him! He's still just a tiny sassy baby though. But this morning, after his usual tantrum of hiss-and-lunge posturing was done, he let me scoop him up without complaint and was a dream to handle. We're breaking through!

[sleepytoycollection]

Axanthic (herpetology): a recessive mutation that produces a snake that is varying shades of grey.

Fidgi and her sister Twitchi.

[garblegarden]

A compendium of pigment mutations present in phonies (and palindromes), shown on a generic green phony.

Dilution factor genes - Genes that raise or lower all pigment types at once.

Default - The default state for an individual. Dilution and concentration are located on the same gene, and the "regular" color is made when the gene is heterozygous.

Diluted - Homozygous recessive dilution creates a phony with less of all kinds of pigments.

Concentrated - Homozygous dominant dilution creates a phony with more of all pigments.

Pointed - A mutation that causes concentration just on the extremities.

Black Factors - Genes that amp up melanophore production.

Melanism and Abundism - Two phenotypes controlled by an incompletely dominant gene. When it's homozygous, the individual is all black. When it's heterozygous, it only affects some markings.

Inkblot - A mutation that causes irregular patches of hyperpigmentation.

White Factors - Genes that remove all pigments.

Albinism - You know the drill.

Leucism - Similar to albinism, but not to its full extent. Leucistic individuals are also spared of the vision problems many albinistic individuals have.

Piebaldism - Causes irregular patches of absent pigmentation.

Roan - Causes absent pigmentation on the core of the body. When this mutation is homozygous, it causes health issues.

Single Color Factors - Genes that affect one or two other types of chromatophores.

Xanthism - Causes excess xanthophores and absent iridophores.

Axanthism - Does the exact opposite of that.

Erythrism - Causes excess erythrophores.

Iridism - Causes excess iridophores. Also makes the eyes look neat.

Others

Prismatic - Causes the chromatophores on certain markings to become confused and show up in widely variable amounts.

Nebulous - Causes diffusion and freckling markings, if both are present, to only display as a mask on certain patterns.

Clear body - Self explanatory.

One of the joys of breeding games is introducing mutations like these!

[kedreeva]

Hi! I just saw your response to keeping peafowl, and was wondering if you could elaborate on the chocolate color being unethical? I'm guessing it has something to do with bad breeding?

Charcoal! Charcoal is an unethical color morph because the hens are sterile and both sexes traditionally tend to live shorter lives- 7-9 years instead of 20+. There are some birds that live longer, but the sterility is linked to whatever gene causes the color alteration. Charcoal birds are likely hypermelanistic or axanthic birds, almost completely black, and so the morph has not been allowed to die off despite the complications. Most people tend to avoid them, though, so they're fairly uncommon. A better choice if you want a dark bird is a midnight blackshoulder, a buford bronze BS, or even a Sonja's violeta BS.

The other unethical "morph" isn't a morph at all; many years ago a bronze bird was produced who had white spots. As he aged, the white spread. The people who didn't know what it was called it "progressive pied" and attempted to reproduce it, not knowing that they were passing on an autoimmune disease that causes vitiligo. In peafowl, this causes pigment cell death, but whatever the culprit is also suppresses immune response and causes blindness. These birds RAPIDLY decline in health after a few years, and are usually euthanized. Unfortunately, because it was and still IS sometimes touted as a pattern morph, it is still being bred in some places, and can randomly pop up in lines connected back to that original bronze. Bronze, purple, and hazel/indigo are common carriers depending on where the birds are located.

[loveletterworm]

Good news i have figured out what to put for blue in the thing. Because i realized what i was previously quantifying as cyan was definitely way more blue than i recalled so i have to move things around which is annoying

[the-mighty-python]

Heyyy long time no post but im coming back with important news: I got my ball python at Last 🥰

Meet Christine! (aka Marmalade Soup) She's an Orange Dream Pied pos het MJ Axanthic

This has been years in the making and so much doubting myself and putting off my dream snake and I couldn't be happier to call this gal mine after waiting so long <3

[lockedbehindtheambereye]

Pavlov, the mad scientist.

Trivia:

- Curse is inlaid into their eyes, rather than their hands. Direct eye contact triggers the curse.

- Kuras Route

- AMAB and agender, doesn't understand the point of gender expression and doesn't care about other's opinions on their identity. Doesn't care about being labelled as male or female and doesn't bother correcting people. Kuras and Mhin seemed easily able to tell that they were genderless.

- He and she can be used for them, but they do prefer they/them or any other gender neutral pronouns, including it/its and neopronouns.

- Is adept in all forms of science such as Biology, Human Anatomy, Chemistry/Alchemy, Physics, Pyschology, Medicine, Astronomy, etc.

- Is also adept in maths up to AP Calc.

- Enjoys reading and writing, but not very often.

- High masking autistic

- Has a pet Axanthic Ball Python named Zirconium

- Finds Kuras' presence offputting but very intriguing.

- Can use magic, but only for practical reasons.

- Not spiritual in any sense and prefers logic over idealism. Understands that spiritual entities and magic exists, but prefers to use science to explain everything.

- Perfected the ability to create their glasses out of magic so that if they get lost or destroyed, they can just create a new pair outta thin air lmao.

- Doesn't talk much, but when they do, it's usually to prove you wrong.

- Shows emotion despite what you may think. They aren't very expressive by any means, but they have their ways.

- They have pinpoint accuracy and are really good with long-range weapons. Has a magical energy longbow that is heavily inspired by Gowther's Herritt treasure from Seven Deadly Sins

- Loves stargazing

- Love language is parallel play

- Germaphobe

- Butterfly symbolism

- Dry humor and puns to the max

- Voice Claim is Clint Bickham

Backstory:

Their childhood was quiet. They didn't have many friends and mostly stuck to their mother's side. She was autistic as well and seemed to be the only one who understood Pavlov. Their mother educated them for most of their life, until she was taken away. Pavlov was only 12. She was taken away by people that Pavlov cannot remember, but they know that they will hunt for their heads. On that same day, a Senobium mage came to Pavlov, calling herself Lunaviere (luna-vee-air), or simply just Lady Luna. She said she would take the place of their mother. Pavlov reacted badly at first, but eventually masked it all and gave cold indifference to Lady Luna.

It wasn't until years later, at 17, that Pavlov had gotten over their indifference to Lady Luna, mostly because she taught him well. Pav found their love for a lot of things through Lady Luna, and she taught them how to use magic and study the stars. Pav found comfort in stargazing with her.

When Pavlov was 19, they discovered a letter on Lady Luna's desk. It was a letter from the Senobium.

...You need to submit your research on the subject, Lunaviere. The curse that child holds is no joke. Find a way to extract that curse and send us the results...

Lady Luna was using Pavlov for research. They huffed out a pained laugh and put the letter and put it back where they found it. From then on, Lady Luna became more pressing and pushy. Pavlov is sure she knew that they had read the letter.

It was when she had strapped them down while they were sleeping that they had realized they should've acted sooner. They should've run when they had the chance.

(tw: eye related goreish description)

Luna had poked and prodded at his eyes, stabbing them, probing them from the inside, only to find that their eyes regrew and so did their vision. Pavlov's screams died on deaf ears as no one would come to save them from the torture that woman did to them.

Using magic and common sense was how they escaped, they stole whatever money they could from Luna and ran. Not only would they come back to kill that woman, but they would also find whoever took their mother and set them up for torture. And they'll do it by any means necessary.

More art and stat sheets below!!!

my sweet bb :), some of their stat sheets need to be updated too 💔