A Very Different Albino

I have seen Albino Balls that have been High Contrast and I have seen them Low Contrast but I have never seen one as Low Contrast as the one I just hatched out. When I first cut all of the eggs after the first one of the clutch had pipped I couldn’t see any color on this one. At first I thought it was a very high white Pied or something. I took some pictures of her in the egg and in the pictures I could see the very light color. This was the first year that I had hatched out anything of note from this breeding. It was a pair of Het Albinos I purchased back in 2002. The first year I got six eggs with no Albinos. The second year I got five eggs but they all went bad. This year was another six eggs and the lone Albino was produced. I have terrible odds with recessive morphs. :( Luckily I have been very fortunate with the Co-Dom morphs. :D

Well here she is my new Very Low Contrast Albino.

http://www.albeysreptiles.com/images/alb08_1_bpn_1.jpg

http://www.albeysreptiles.com/images/alb08_1_bpn_2.jpg

http://www.albeysreptiles.com/images/alb08_1_bpn_3.jpg

http://www.albeysreptiles.com/images/alb08_1_bpn_4.jpg

Once again the pictures show much more color on her than you can see with the naked eye. She looks a lot lighter in person. I am not really sure what to think of her. Part of me thinks she is really unique and cool looking (she almost looks like a Crystal), and part of me is disappointed that she isn’t High Contrast. What does everyone else think?

Ive never seen one before but i would imagine thats what a hypo/albino would look like, but like i said i have never seen any produced, however it is a great looking very unique albino. Congrats!

Personally, I don't care for the high contrast albinos. Now, if I could be guaranteed that all the offspring would be low contrast I wouldn't mind having one at all ;)

Gorgeous snake IMO! :gj:

It's almost coral colored, very neat looking, Congrats.

almost snow like!

Very very hot!

Very pretty!

Woa... that is different for sure!! Have you tried emailing Ralph Davis, or a few of the larger breeders with pictures? They might have an idea as to what created this VERY cool looking albino.

Another thing I thought I would show everyone is in this picture.

http://www.albeysreptiles.com/images...br08_bpn_1.jpg

Notice how two of the clutch mates have an almost Axanthic look to them. The other two Normal sibs look just like the Normal right above the Albino. I hatched out some that looked like the Axanthic looking ones in the first clutch I produced from this same pairing but they did not stay looking like that. Weird!

wow that is freakin weird especially with those other very axanthic lookers in there. I wonder if you've got a pair of double hets somehow and just didn't know it? I wonder if that really is a snow! That would be so cool :D. It's a really nice look albino though, I prefer high-contrast as well but that's just a cool looking snake ;)

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Originally Posted by Albey

Another thing I thought I would show everyone is in this picture.

http://www.albeysreptiles.com/images...br08_bpn_1.jpg

Notice how two of the clutch mates have an almost Axanthic look to them. The other two Normal sibs look just like the Normal right above the Albino. I hatched out some that looked like the Axanthic looking ones in the first clutch I produced from this same pairing but they did not stay looking like that. Weird!

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Those two do look similar to an Axanthic. There must be something going on with the parents to produce that light albino and light looking babies.