Unfortunately when you have bred many animals you are gonna run into a deformity or condition that may be a painful existence which eventually ends up in slow death. many times we try to save or rescue the hatchling only to see it suffer. When you have gone through this process you start to learn that culling is sometimes the right thing to do. Nature would have never allowed this creature to last very long.

As handlers or breeders I think this is not cut and dry and it is obviously a very personel decision.

As far as albinos or any bright morph, they have survived for millions of years most likely because as mentioned they are nocturnal and would spend most of there lives in a hole somewhere. I think thats why so many variations have survived as opposed to other snakes that are cruising through forests or jungles where camoflauge affects survival on a constant basis.

I use CO2 to prekill my rats and if I needed to cull an animal I would probably do the same thing.