#250a

He was the first I offered food to, and he impressed me with his amazing feeding response! Right from the start he was immediately interested in food and has taken two frozen/thawed meals in a row and I can tell he's gonna be a beast!

Crème Brulée is a low expression Paradox Albino. He doesn't have many black paradox spots, but he makes up for it with his incredibly outgoing personality! He is so curious and wants to sniff and investigate everything. While Cherche was giving birth, Crème Brulée kept following and sniffing his mama while the others were coping with life. Here's a still from the video I took of it (video posted on instagram)

He also inherited the reduced patterning on his sides from his mom! This is one of my favorite physical attributes of Cherche that I'm glad to see was passed down. If you take a look at the baby photo of the mom above, if you look at her sides where the orange meets the white you can see there's barely any patterning! Another trait which I think may be related is that her side patterning is very lifted, the orange is below most of the patterning--I'll show an example! Below is a side view of her I have posted here in my pairing breakdown where you can see what it looks like now.

Below are just some images I pulled from google of other Albinos/Paradox Albinos

You can see how busy some of this patterning is on the sides of these animals, particularly on the plane transitioning between the sides and the white belly. On a majority of animals they have big blotches and then on the sides will have extremely busy small patterning. Cherche lacks most of that tiny busy patterning and you can see a lot of that plane where the orange meets the white with few interruptions. Not something that I am aware of other breeders noticing or breeding for--just something I love about my snake. Generally breeding for overall reduced pattern is a desired and bred for trait, Cherche seems to just possess this on her sides as normal variation/happenstance. But it is so exciting that I got to see it reflect in her baby!

He was eye-catching from the day he was born and gets better every time I look at him! He's been quite the anomaly. I was expecting the litter to be as clear cut genetically in that some would look like mom and some would look like dad. He's the outlier! Had me scratching my head and reaching out to my mentor and some of my breeder friends.

He appears to be more of an aberrant rufescens-cross. This is purely random influence due to KSBs and their subspecies hybridization with Rufescens Sand Boas. As far as I'm aware, none of the parents' littermates or parents had expression like this.

Such a busy pattern, and there's a lot to love! He's the highest expression paradox of the litter, he has a lovely thick stripe that's jagged all the way down and forks at his neck.

He is the least saturated stripe compared to his siblings. He has some of the upticking of orange speckles from his belly up his sides but its very light and not very noticeable. The orange speckles up the sides is a variable trait of stripes, some have very little to none of the orange on the sides, and some have a lot! The presence and contrast of it is a desirable trait for me personally. The sire to this litter is a nice example of it, here you can see what I mean below!

And here is a picture I pulled from google of a non-albino stripe where you can see the orange on the sides!

The contrast comes from the depth of color from the orange on top of a light or dark background. In this case all of my stripes are P. Albino so a light off-white background color is going to show this trait the best!

At the moment I can't be sure which of the babies will turn out to be the lightest background color, but it does appear that Crêpe may not surpass his father in this way--at least from what I can tell with the saturation level of his oranges at this moment. He is much easier on the eyes than his neon highlighter siblings! I fear he would have been too powerful if he was just as bright. The world may have imploded, or just my eyes from the busy tricolor pattern, lol

He has a mellow, quiet personality. He's not the biggest explorer and won't venture far. But doesn't mind being picked up nor gets overly-spooked.

From the moment all of them were born, you could clearly see Parfait was the most colorful. She has such a neon, highlighter orange that has gotten more rich and deeper over the weeks. Its especially emphasized by her very light background color. She also was born with stunning silver eyes that made her stand out even more. She looks so similar to what the sire looked like when he was younger.