Yellow headed albinos??

[Artemille]

So, back in January I posted this thread asking about my very yellow albino.
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ther-fun-genes

Someone suggested he was a VPI yellow headed albino. I happened to be on my old thread and decided to look it up. There is very little about them online. There is some talk on barely working web pages by both Ralph Davis and VPI from 2004 that mention them starting to work with them, and a VPI image from 2008 of a female on eggs.

There were some images of really vibrant banded snakes on google that looked like my Oliver from a Chinese site. It mentioned VPI and Ralph Davis but the site wasn't loading properly.

A friend of mine who works at BHB asked Brian and he said there was no such thing.

So what ever happened to their existence? I guess I won't know if Oliver's pattern is genetic until next year but its weird that this type of albino seems to have disappeared.

[OhhWatALoser]

Any reason not to think that is a pastel albino? Looks like one to me. Have you produced any babies yet?

[Artemille]

I will be breeding him in a couple months once my spider het albino gets a little bigger.

He does look like the last image on WoBP but I haven't seen any other examples. When I google yellow headed albino, a ton of them have the same solid yellow bodies with very defined bands like he has.

Im just kinda wondering why this type of albino was a documented thing in 2008 but isn't anymore.

[OhhWatALoser]

well if you told me that was a pastel albino I'd believe it, hopefully breeding will help you confirm something, good luck.

[Meltdown Morphs]

I'm gonna have to agree with someone who posted off that older thread.

It looks like if you took this snake :http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/puzzle-ball/ and turned it albino.

Hes got that same blocky looking pattern on his back, that melts into the heavily connected pattern on the side.