Female sunglow poss het anery

[CloudtheBoa]

What's the difference between a sunglow and an albino? I see lots of both and also lots of sunglow albinos.

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Albinos are a single gene animal, sunglows are a hypo and albino animal. Easiest way to tell them apart visually is that regular albinos tend to have white rings around their saddles, while sunglows will only have those rings around their actual tail, the part past their cloaca, the rest of their saddles have no defined borders. As adults, they also tend to fade out a lot more than sunglows, leaving just a tiny bit of orange in their tail, unless you get a nice linebred animal.

[Fraido]

So when someone says sunglow albino that is actually inaccurate and they are actually referring to a hypo albino?

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[CloudtheBoa]

So when someone says sunglow albino that is actually inaccurate and they are actually referring to a hypo albino?

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It's not inaccurate so much as redundant. Sunglow is hypo albino, so you can say sunglow or hypo albino, but sunglow albino is like saying hypo albino albino.


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[Fraido]

Ahh. Thank you!

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[CloudtheBoa]

No problem!


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[Fraido]

Oh, and not sure if I've said anything yet, but she is beautiful! 😊

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[CloudtheBoa]

Took Nymeria out again a few days ago, I'm thinking of trying her on a weaned rat again with her next feeding. I would like to get her off the fatty jumbos asap.

[Fraido]

What were you feeding her when you first got her? I'm feeding my girl rat pinkies right now, but someone keeps trying to tell me to feed her pups, the pinkies look like a good size to me and pups seen far too large right now.

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[CloudtheBoa]

What were you feeding her when you first got her? I'm feeding my girl rat pinkies right now, but someone keeps trying to tell me to feed her pups, the pinkies look like a good size to me and pups seen far too large right now.

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I was feeding her mouse hoppers, which are actually a bit smaller than rat pinks in size, but about equal in weight. She got those every 10 days for the first couple months, then I fed her every 14 days. About the time she turned 8 months I think it was I bumped her to small adult mice because she simply would not shed and figured maybe she needed a bigger prey size. I prefer to feed mice until they can eat weaned rats, as a mouse of equal size is more nutritious and less fatty than a rat during this stage of development. A pinkie is barely more than fat, water, and skin. The exception is jumbo mice, but I'm feeding them since weaned rats are quite a bit heavier and a little bigger in size than jumbo mice. She's growing quickly so she should be able to take them any time now.

Until she shed for the second time after taking 6 months to shed, I fed her every 7 days, and once she looked like she was going to shed like normal I put her back on 14 days. I'll be moving her to 3 weeks when she turns 2.

(Edit to add she was also 80-150 grams during the time I was feeding hoppers.)

[Fraido]

I was feeding her mouse hoppers, which are actually a bit smaller than rat pinks in size, but about equal in weight. She got those every 10 days for the first couple months, then I fed her every 14 days. About the time she turned 8 months I think it was I bumped her to small adult mice because she simply would not shed and figured maybe she needed a bigger prey size. I prefer to feed mice until they can eat weaned rats, as a mouse of equal size is more nutritious and less fatty than a rat during this stage of development. A pinkie is barely more than fat, water, and skin. The exception is jumbo mice, but I'm feeding them since weaned rats are quite a bit heavier and a little bigger in size than jumbo mice. She's growing quickly so she should be able to take them any time now.

Until she shed for the second time after taking 6 months to shed, I fed her every 7 days, and once she looked like she was going to shed like normal I put her back on 14 days. I'll be moving her to 3 weeks when she turns 2.

(Edit to add she was also 80-150 grams during the time I was feeding hoppers.)

Figured as much, the person I know is a power feeder. I feel bad for his snakes' inevitable shorter life. Thanks!