Are albinos worth getting?

I have enough money to buy a male, but I want to know if its better buying an albino than a mojave.

It all comes down to what you personally find attractive, what you might have already that you would want to breed to it, and what type of snakes you might want to produce in the future.

They're both attractive snakes. I prefer the mojaves and that is just my own personal tastes.

I'd rather have an Albino male than a Mojave male if that's what you're asking. What one fits better with your project? What are you trying to make? I was never big into Albinos but I recently saw a Pewter Albino so I am trying to shoot for some Black Pewter Albinos. I picked up a Pastel het Albino female and am getting a Black Pastel het Albino male soon. My project decided my purchases.

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Well I seen many projects that looked really cool with the albinos like the spider albinos and pinstripe, and when I look at the mojave its a nice morph that can make the BEL's and jigsaws. I like the color of the albino, but I like the pattern of the mojave. So I'm having a hard time deciding.

I love albinos more than ANYTHING. And nothing beats albinos on eggs nor the brightness of a nice adult albino.

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I do have some mojaves as well that are very nice.
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I personally wouldn't buy either as a male unless I had some awesome females to put them with. I'd buy a double gene male instead. If it were a female I would take an albino over a mojave any day, and male as well. You need to find what fits into your project. The money spent on an animal is only worth the effort the investor is willing to put forth to obtain an objective in the long run.

I think there are many great combos both morphs have the ability to make. It's up to you to decide what is the worth the time and effort. I think making a cinnamon albino would be more of a payoff than getting a blue eyed leucistic, at the same time I would love to have both.

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Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons

I love albinos more than ANYTHING. And nothing beats albinos on eggs nor the brightness of a nice adult albino.

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Look at that beauty, albino, ALBINO!!!

yeah, what are your females? If you phrased it as "is an albino female worth it", absolutely. Buying a recessive male, you gotta think about what you're pairing him to.

... unless you're not looking to breed him at all, and just want a snake for show. In which case, buy whichever one you think is prettier.

(But I will say that albinos continue to sell like hotcakes. I've stood around at reptile shows watching people drain ATMs of cash just so they could make an "impulse" purchase on an albino male. When I took my lone albino to work, the business manager threatened to put whipped cream and a cherry on him and have him for desert. People still really like albinos.)

I have normal female almost about to breed. I might buy a female right now,but I need another male. I have one pastel (being a picky eater might sell and buy another morph) and two normals. I'm not thinking about making profit or anything, I just want to buy one cool morph to add and breed in the future as an experience.

If you only have an albino male you will only get hets from breeding to a normal. If you want to breed to get hets and raise up the females to get more albinos go for it. If you want to hopefully see some visual morphs your first breeding season go with the mojave.

the only thing i dont like about recessive morphs is that they produce hets if you breed to a normal, but when you breed dom and co dom 50% will be that morph.

If there are any morphs that seem better than mojave or albino call it out. I'm just looking for a cool morph. Now not morphs that are combination morphs. Base morph.

There are so many morphs these days, you can do so much with. A lot of the base morphs I love are because of what they can do as combos such as yellow bellies and cinnamons. I like certain ones a base morphs but mostly for what they can do with other morphs like I mentioned above.

My personal favorite base morphs are lessers, albinos, ghosts, spiders, and pinstripes. All of these look incredibly unique. This all completely changes when you are talking about the breeding aspect.

Out of all those for a single gene male morph I would probably only consider getting a lesser, spider, or pinstripe. The other two recessive genes (albino, ghost) I would get as a female, unless I already had a visual female morph to breed to.

Check out worldofmorphs.com, it will make your head explode with how many choices are available.

Enjoy!

My :2cent:,

I'm very attracted to the color visual morphs. Love the albinos, lessers, axanthics, pieds, etc. I would absolutely jump at an albino (which I've done...and I'm getting .2 het albinos to pair with him ;)).

As others have said, it all comes down to what you like.

With the time it takes to grow a female, thats what you should build on first.
You dont want to learn the hard way, if I had it to do over I wouldnt be a male heavy as I am.
Build you female stable first then in a year or two get a couple cool combo males.:gj:

Blow you mind HERE:rofl::rofl:

As others have said females take longer to matures, so its best to get your females first.

Now for Mojos vs Albinos, they are both beautiful morphs but I'm an Albino fan hands down.

Some of my Albino projects:

High contrast Albino:
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file..._0332_copy.jpg

Albino Spider:
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...ino_spider.jpg

Albino Black Pastel:
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file..._0385_copy.jpg

Mojos can make some cool combos but I think if you add Albino to anything the results are just amazing.

The decision would have to be made based on what you want to do with combos. There are alot of great combos made with both morphs. Recessive combos will always hold their value longer then codom combos. If your just trying to produce single gene animals with them then either way will give you about the same outcome financially. Me personally i like the recessive combos.

It depends on what you like more and what you plan to do.. honestly I have never liked albinos in the ball python world ( give me a burm though and I drool) until I saw a lavander albino.. now they are on my list. Remember these animals live for 20 years some times.. what do you want to look at everyday for 20 years.. that is what you should get.

Depends on what you want. For me, having an albino is like having the 'little black dress'.. Never out of style! You can always count on albinos to look gorgeous, attract eyes, and still retain relative popularity. They are like the classy ball python morph, and one of the few more expensive morphs that people who have no plans to breed will still buy! But if you don't like it, don't get it!

Purplemuffin that's how I think with my albino! I actually prefer the albinos over my little black dress. Lol.

I do enjoy the albinos though. I love the combos. Plus recessive combos take a little longer to produce and retain value well. I love them all though. 


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Just remember it was the albino ball python that created the monster that is the ball morph world. Its hard not to tip your hat to the king

Very true


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Originally Posted by eel588

Look at that beauty, albino, ALBINO!!!

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I agree, that is one fine looking albino. Even as an adult her markings are still vibrant.

If you only have normal females, I would go with the Mojave just because visible offspring are a lot easier to sell than hets. I'm an Albino fan, though. I don't think the Albino morph will ever lose its charm.

Albinos will hold their value better than mojos, because they are harder to create / mass-produce. Both parents have to have an albino gene, where only one parent must have the mojo gene.