Total Albino Confusion

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Originally Posted by KLG

Hmmm....let's see...she's the only one thus far, so not for sale.

K~

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Ok... was just curious for the 'wow' factor I guess. I've seen others on the NERD website for $35k and $38k, so I could only imagine. n/m :oops:

Edit: By 'others' I meant other morphs... not caramel glow.

(can't edit my post... :frustrate )

red albino??? well gee thank you kindly Adam LOL now instead of going to bed at a decent hour I'll be a-googling for ages to find a pic of one!!!!

Is there some sort of mental disorder yet unrecognized by the medical community wherein one decides to get a nice lil normal ball python for a pet, then gets sucked into morphs and becomes completely fascinated???? If so, I want it named after ME! LMAO (We've spent more time this month discussing our future snakes love life than our own...you people are wrecking my marriage! )

believe me....you are not the first one with that condition :)

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

(We've spent more time this month discussing our future snakes love life than our own...)

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:shh: shhhh! my husband hasn't realized that this is true for us too! :P

The names do get confusing. I THINK they go something like this with the following being groups of different interchangeable names you sometimes see for the three different types of albino proven so far.

1. Caramel = Caramel Albino = T+ = Tyrosinase Positive Albino = Xanthic = Xanthic Albino

2. Lavender = Lavender Albino

3. Albino = Regular Albino = T- = Tyrosinase Negative Albino = High Contrast Albino =? Granite Albino

I'm really only guessing that the Granite Albino is a regular albino that just happens to have the granite pattern - who knows, it might turn out to be a fourth type. I think VPI also has an unproven new line with “albino” in the name that looks sort of along the caramel line (but different looking) but I don't remember the name. There are probably others I forgot or didn’t know about.

Hopefully we will finally start getting some babies from crosses between the different groups this year to answer the question of if you will really get normal looking double hets as expected if they are separate genes or mutants if they are alleles (different mutations of the same gene). I believe I read that RDR has eggs from Caramel X Lavender incubating. In years past he has also tried Albino X Lavender but didn't get any eggs that hatched (too small of sample size to read much into that). I'm also very interested in hearing about any Albino X Caramel breedings but haven't heard of it even being tried yet.

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Originally Posted by RandyRemington

I'm really only guessing that the Granite Albino is a regular albino that just happens to have the granite pattern - who knows, it might turn out to be a fourth type.

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If you saw the animal in person there is no way you would think it had anything to do with a regular albino. From the pattern to the coloring to the scalation, there is something very different going on there.

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Originally Posted by RandyRemington

I think VPI also has an unproven new line with “albino” in the name that looks sort of along the caramel line (but different looking) but I don't remember the name.

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Red Albino.

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Originally Posted by RandyRemington

There are probably others I forgot or didn’t know about.

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A couple.

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Originally Posted by RandyRemington

I believe I read that RDR has eggs from Caramel X Lavender incubating.

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You "believe" ... LOL ... the way you quote Ralphies birthing records on the forums, everyone assumes that you have them all memorized :P

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Originally Posted by RandyRemington

I'm also very interested in hearing about any Albino X Caramel breedings but haven't heard of it even being tried yet.

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Not likely to happen anytime soon.

-adam

Anybody got a picture of the Xanthic albino?

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Originally Posted by Schlyne

Anybody got a picture of the Xanthic albino?

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http://www.8ballpythons.com/uploads/...l-03310501.jpg

-adam

Oh dummy me, I read the previous post wrong. Thanks for the picture anyway :)