The Axanthic royal python was the second morph to be reproduced in captivity, and to date there are three proven lines of axanthics, the Snake Keeper line, Barker or VPI line and the Joliff line. Here at db Reptiles we are working with the VPI line as we feel it is the superior of the three lines.

I believe the axanthic mutation is one of the most underrated mutations available. Axanthisim is a colour mutation, which can be characterised as the lack of yellow and orange pigmentation in the skin, leaving a truly astounding black, silver, and white snake.

Axanthics are also the key to a number of popular projects including the ‘Snow’, and the true ghost, not to mention the countless combinations which have not been thought of yet. Imagine the axanthic piebald royal python, a black, and silver snake with large patches of pure white!