Hey what’s going on folks, I have a Pastel (Pos Super) Ivory Leopard female hatchling that has a dark blue tint to her eyes around the pupils. To my knowledge Ivory’s have all black eyes, hence why some people call them Black Eye Leucistics. There is Phantom in play from the parents so was curious if she could possibly have Phantom in her as well. Being an Ivory, it would more than likely overpower the other genes and look all white. Would like to know for future pairings so I don’t accidentally create BELs when not trying to so just getting opinions from everyone. Thanks!
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If you want to know her genetics fully, you can do a shed test to see if she’s carrying phantom/mystic and you can check if there’s pastel or super pastel.
She definitely has a lot of pattern to her for an ivory. So I wouldn’t be surprised if she was carrying those genes
The eye color is most likely because of the pastel or phantom influence. Pastels can have green eyes, and super pastels with a BEL gene can have some beautiful green eyes.
Also keep in mind that calling an Ivory a black eyed leucistic isn’t quite right because super fire and it’s allelic genes are the Blk Eye Lucy complex.
YB is part of the Super stripe complex, but it does yield a pale snake with dark eyes. much like how a spider pied can be an all white snake with black eyes, but it’s not part of the Blk Eye Lucy complex.
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Awesome info, thanks for the insight. I knew that about the Super Fires, had a dumb moment. I did not know about the green eyes from pastel and super pastel though. Yea was thinking of shed testing, thought I’d get some opinions on here as well. Thanks again!
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Ivorys normally have a dark indigo-coloured eye, it is not black. The BlkELs are the Fire-complex animals, as Christina correctly noted
My suspicion is that your animal does not contain Phantom as the synergy between Ivory and hetBluEL tends to push toward a whiter Ivory. That said, I am not entirely sure how Leopard would interact in the combo, so a shed test would be your definitive clarification
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Thanks! I appreciate the feedback!
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