Snow Granite
Snow Granite is a triple-recessive combination: Albino (M. s. variegata), Axanthic, and Granite (M. s. harrisoni). This is one of the most complex achievable breeding goals in the Morelia spilota complex – requiring all three recessive alleles in homozygous form. From a triple-het × triple-het pairing, the statistical probability per offspring is 1 in 64 (1.56%).
Albino eliminates melanin. Axanthic suppresses yellow. Granite disrupts the pattern into individually pigmented scale clusters. Together: a nearly white animal with a ghostly mosaic of faint lavender or pale grey pattern remnants – the Granite fragmentation visible as a subtle textural difference rather than a color contrast. Pink to red eyes from the Albino component.
This is a documented multi-subspecies cross involving at least three lineages (Darwin, Coastal/Papuan, and IJ).
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