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lavender eye color

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i just recently purchased a beautiful lavender from WWW.Moreptiles.com and it has blue eyes. i was under the impression that lavenders have ruby colored eyes. im not complaining, i like the blue much better than the ruby, i was just wondering. i can post pics up if wanted.
 
I think what you heard with ruby is the color of its pupil, not the iris. Its not a 100% thing in lavenders I believe, and can show in different morphs too.


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Yes, ruby eyes refer to the color of the pupil, not the iris as daemonox said. It shows up in ghosts and lavenders; and as far as I know, the cause of it is not known.

Shot of ruby-eyed ghost (nope not red eye, they're really that red):
 

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Hypo Lavender Male *clutchmate to the above snake* (he doesn't have ruby pupils, that I've noticed anyway) :shrugs:
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Lore- I love your new avatar! Did someone from here draw it for you??

(I need a snake with ruby pupils now!!)

Nanci
 
blueapplepaste said:
Yes, ruby eyes refer to the color of the pupil, not the iris as daemonox said. It shows up in ghosts and lavenders; and as far as I know, the cause of it is not known.

Shot of ruby-eyed ghost (nope not red eye, they're really that red):
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It would make sense that the ruby pupils are due to a reduction in the melanin present in the eye itself (sort of like the reason that albino mammal eyes are pink) - the pupils aren't black because there's not enough black pigment for them to be.

Now, how that's connected genetically to hypomelanism, anerythrism or lavender... that's a question.

Do ruby-pupilled parents produce 100% ruby-pupilled offspring?
 
Nanci said:
Lore- I love your new avatar! Did someone from here draw it for you??

(I need a snake with ruby pupils now!!)

Nanci
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It's all a part of my new design to my website, I've been keeping it hush hush :rolleyes: , LOL! But The avatar is part of a larger image that I commitioned an artist to do for me, copywrite patent -n- all :crazy02: :cheers:

I'll be working on the site next week.
 
Ssthisto said:
It would make sense that the ruby pupils are due to a reduction in the melanin present in the eye itself (sort of like the reason that albino mammal eyes are pink) - the pupils aren't black because there's not enough black pigment for them to be.

Now, how that's connected genetically to hypomelanism, anerythrism or lavender... that's a question.
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Yes, but it's odd that it shows up in animals that don't have any other reds, such as lavender and anerythrism.

Do ruby-pupilled parents produce 100% ruby-pupilled offspring?
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I don't know.
 
blueapplepaste said:
Yes, but it's odd that it shows up in animals that don't have any other reds, such as lavender and anerythrism.
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But the red isn't pigment... what I'm seeing looks like it's the blood/tissue that is behind the inside of the eyeball showing through because there is insufficient black pigment to hide it.

Based on what the Lavenders I've seen look like as adults, I wouldn't be surprised if their particular 'type' of reduced red colouring also creates a reduced black colouring effect ... and if there's reduced black pigment on the snake... you might well get reduced black pigment in the eyes of the snake, producing a ruby pupil. And Ghosts ARE hypomelanistic - again, that's reduced black pigment, therefore maybe showing ruby pupils when there's not enough black pigment in the eye to make them look black.
 
Ssthisto said:
But the red isn't pigment... what I'm seeing looks like it's the blood/tissue that is behind the inside of the eyeball showing through because there is insufficient black pigment to hide it.
Agreed, but then one might also expect to see it in phantoms and ambers. Also intersting that it creates only a localized reduction just on the pupil though.
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blueapplepaste said:
Ssthisto said:
But the red isn't pigment... what I'm seeing looks like it's the blood/tissue that is behind the inside of the eyeball showing through because there is insufficient black pigment to hide it.
Agreed, but then one might also expect to see it in phantoms and ambers. Also intersting that it creates only a localized reduction just on the pupil though.
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Localized? A lavender does show less black on the body then a normal, right? Never saw a lav with black bordered saddles....
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Blutengel said:
Localized? A lavender does show less black on the body then a normal, right? Never saw a lav with black bordered saddles....
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I'm referring to how just the eye has the red showing through. Which makes more sense on a lavender for the reasons you say, but not so much on a ghost.
 
lol, i don't care!

Corn snakes are beutiful anyway! weather they're eyes are any colour! :D:):D

still though i can everybodys intrest in the subject.
 
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