The next baby in Cherche's French Dessert litter, is this outgoing little male named Crème Brulée !
Our one and only non-stripe Paradox Albino--he is practically a clone of his mama, and the first baby I laid my eyes on. Such a special boy <3 Pictured below is his mom when she was a baby so you can see how alike they are!
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!
Now, Crème Brulée doesn't appear to have surpassed his mom in this regard nor in paradox expression. But, time will tell about his color! He is already showing great promise in his vibrancy, having only shed once and gaining so much color! I did provide one picture of him with his fresh and shiny baby skin and even though the lighting is different, you can see how bright he has gotten when comparing it to the first and most recent photo! The baby photo of his mom was her probably a month or two older than Crème Brulée is now! I think this is the influence from dad playing a part! We can only wait and see how his color develops but this I feel may be his surpassing moment and he may have a lot brighter of color when he reaches adulthood <3
