Thank you, Christina, for grabbing that previous post of mine as it should definitely help the OP
In my many years I can state that, while they hatch out very white, every adult BluEL I have seen has had a creamy/yellowish tone to it. So a BluEL would be my last choice if going for “as white as white can be”
Some Ivory combos can be fairly white, but they also tend to retain a slight tone to them that give them that characteristic ‘ivory’ shade. A straight Ivory however (i.e., no other morphs present), will have a very clearly visible yellowed dorsal line and purple-tinted head
All-white BlkELs and BlkEL combos are the whitest snakes I personally have every seen. They are so white that they have a degree of translucency that can give them pink undertones due to the blood being visible beneath the surface
I have heard from breeders that I trust that all-white Pied combos are very similar to the all-white BlkELs. The caution there is that many of those combos either involve genes that are associated with known issues (e.g., the aforementioned wobble in Spider complex animals) or result in a defect from the synergy of the genes when combined (e.g., microphthalmia in hetBluEL and BluEL Pied)
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Not recent, but might it have been my animal?
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Christina beat me to this one LOL
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Another small correction - there are a lot more than five genes in this complex:
- Spider
- Champ
- Spotnose
- HGW
- Woma
- Sable
- Cypress
- Chocolate
- Wookie
- Blackhead
And a couple others I cannot remember off the top of my head