Albino Pattern Question

[Vasiliki]

Good afternoon, everyone,

I will post a picture later about what I'm talking about, but I figured I'd get the question/inquiry out there anyway for anyone who is wandering around the forums today.

Yesterday I attended a local reptile show put on by our local Reptile Society (E.R.A.S.), which we hold twice a year. As such, various vendors come around and we get to see a wider range of stuff than we do just at our monthly meetings.

Well, a gentleman there had a pair of Albino BPs. At first I'm like: "Cool. I do like Albinos."

Then I started looking quite closely and the pattern on the male was.... absolutely strange. He had a single white stripe down his back with dots perfectly in the center until about 1/3 of the way down. Then the dots disappeared. 1/2 down the body a faded stripe appears. This yellow stripe (faded) runs the length of the white stripe, interupted only once by another dot.

The white saddles on the side of the snake blur into a single solid yellow halfway down the body. No pattern appears apparent from this. He is just solid yellow/patternless on the last half of his body.

I spoke with the breeder, who focused mainly on boas. I asked him if he was re-doing this pairing, to see if more of the unusual half-stripes showed up. He said he sold the original pairing after this clutch was laid. He also told me that one of the hatchlings from that clutch that died in the egg had a single, solid white stripe down it's back and solid pattern down it's sides as well.

He pulls out the female and Het. Albinos from this clutch too, and we start looking them over. Low and behold, the female shows the same traits as the male albino. She maintains a better pattern in the front half of her body, but again, it tappers off into a stripe halfway down and the pattern reduces heavily. Even the Het. Albino had a very similar pattern, although he still possessed a mostly 'normal' pattern at the front.

I will upload pictures of the male tonight when I get home. After talking, the breeder pulled the prices off the snakes and posted them as NFS for the remainder of the show. They are 2012 babies, so he said he wasn't sure if he wanted to grow them out and breed them back to see if it's a pattern. But he also said he wanted out of BPs, and offered me the unique male if I wanted him.

Does this sound like a typical 'random pattern' difference within a morph line, or is this type of reduced pattern/striping unusual in Albinos? It almost looked like a Blackback Albino, but I couldn't put my finger on it one way or another.

I'll post photos later. But I'm hoping to see if someone here has experience with unusually patterned 'Regular' Albinos.

[snakesRkewl]

Albino's get their pattern from the normal type that makes it. If you use a banded ball that passes banding on to its offspring then you'll get albino banded offspring.
If you use a striped snake to make albino's and the striped snake passes that on, then you get striped albino's, etc...

[TJ_Burton]

I am looking forward to seeing pic!

[elbee]

I want to see him, sounds cool.

[Solarsoldier001]

He sounds like a pretty snake. Did you buy him?


1.0 Pewter (Dexter), 1.0 Butter Het OG (Butters), 0.1 Pinstripe (Honey), 0.1 Lesser (Pepper), 0.1 Butter Het OG (Aurora), 0.1 Spider Het OG (Betsy), 0.1 Mojave (Maya)
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[Yellow_Belly]

Interesting & cant wait to see pics