I'll try to get some pics of the parents... They are in a pretty good sized pond and I don't see a whole lot of them. The parents were all wild caught and I felt bad confining them to a (relatively) small enclosure...so I opted to build them a nice sized pond and let nature do most of the work.

As far as the albinism...I pretty much got lucky last year. I had suspected that I may have some het albino adults, but it was far from certain since they were wild caught. The female that laid the albinos last year laid 31 eggs for me this year, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that she mated with the same male as last year (or withheld some sperm from last year). Once my male albinos get up to size I will be mating them back to mom to see what happens.

One thing that I do know about the albinism in common snappers is that the established lines of albino do not appear to be compatible with each other....which is pretty fascinating. Not sure if it is like the lines of Axanthicism in BP's (VPI, SK, Joliff) or if there is some other explanation. The problem is that only a few people are working with snappers, so the amount of research is somewhat limited.