#Albino skins
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i love this idea especially since albino reptiles are almost never entirely white, just lacking dark pigmentation
Think it's what leucistic is supposed to be. Feel like the difference between them isn't much in coloration
Leucistic was supposed to be albino that's why there was yellows in it but people disliked the "pe color" so it was changed
In real life albinos miss all pigment hence the pinkish-yellowish hue and red eyes, while leucistic animals are missing part of the pigments (either one or more type entirely or all of them from parts of the body making them look spotted)
Honestly, Leucistic never felt albino to me. It just felt white.
Not always
Attached is a leucistic (white scales and blue eyes) ball python and an albino (yellow marks and traditional albino eyes) and for good measure an axanthic (black and white with blue eyes) ball python
Albinism is a lack of Melanin, Axanthism ends up turning the reptile greyscale or blue sometimes, And Leucism is the appearance of white colouration and does not always fully encompass the animal but can, As in this Ball Python's case where Leucistic is whiter than Albino
Traditional white vs leucistic comparisons like what I used to think are based in mammals, Where albino is more white than Leucistic, But for reptiles it is not usually the case
Edit: This was in response to Hazriel
I've also seem Albino result in more of a pinkish coloration. Hmmm... Maybe make Albino a rare version of each skin? Like there's Crimson dawn, and Albino Crimson dawn. Have it be the same pattern, but replace the colors with a Albino pallet.
Have it so whenever you breed, there's a small chance (like passing gold skin small) of the skin being albino
Another example is that this dart frog when albino has the black marks turn pink/white but keeps the almost pearlescent greens and blues
Albinos don't lack all pigment, But specific ones, And Leucism is specifically white colouration
I'd love for a rare albino, So many cool looks could come of it 
That's my thought. Would also be truer to the condition. If you look at animals that normally have patterns, like a orca or a panda, the pattern is still very much there. The color has just been swapped to whites, yellows, and pinks.
"Because albinism affects all melanin production in an animal's cells, this means that partial albinism cannot exist. This phenomenon is known as leucism, the partial loss of all types of pigmentation, including carotenoids. Leucism causes white coloration, white patches, spots, or splotches on the skin or fur." From NPS's site.... albinos lack all the black pigments, leucistics lack part of it
Leucistics lack parts of all types of pigmentation
This tends to range anywhere between the spots you usually see to maintaining pigmentation in the eyes but having a white body
Meanwhile albinos lack only a specific type of pigmentation but that specific pigmentation is missing throughout the entire creature
Meaning if it has no melanistic pigment anywhere, It is albino, But this does not mean that other pigmentations do not exist in the body
However Leucistics can vary and be partial and can lack more than just the melanistic pigment, Resulting in a completely colorless animal or an animal with completely colourless splotches
Random % chance upon nesting you get Albino... a birth defect in nesting.. (Pink shading with pink eyes and has more pink tints) Can be any skin your nesting..... its just there..as a birth defect.. can only be acquired from nesting.. (ITS NOT LUEC AT ALL luec needs to get rid of that bloody yellow)
So again seperate the white skin.. If albino is its own skin its cool.. Just stop trying to get white skin to be albino its not going to work..
Exactly.
Arrax is more of a Greyson color
Oh sorry I just have searched albino dragon and I thought it was albino