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Affectionately known as "Spliff", he was the first Albino Olive Python recorded. It was a sad day when he passed away. |
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Albino hatchling - Dave Barker was
correct, a cool incubation temperature produces perfection. Thankyou
Dave!
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1 year old albino showing the characteristic
pink eyes and tongue.Whereas some lineages of albino snakes have a skew
toward one sex
(generally males), this lineage produces 50:50 and follows Mendelian genetics in the crossing of offspring. |
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The difference in colour between normal female and albino male is evident during mating. |
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Egg laying is an exciting time for any herp. The excitement level goes up when you know some of these eggs contain albino embryos. |
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The hardest thing to do is to leave a female on her eggs, but they do make good mums. Artificial incubation lets the mum eat sooner and enables her to breed each year. |
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HOW GOOD IS THIS? The emergence of the nose of a new hatchling. Is it albino or not? |
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All are very healthy animals and potentially carry the Albino Olive Python gene. This photo shows a clutch of normal coloured offspring and a single albino. |
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Not only are there Albino olive pythons in the pipeline, but there are also colour variants with this distinctive "granite" morph, yet to produce offspring. |
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and this 'choccie' colour morph also
yet to produce offspring.
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Being second generation captive bred animals, there is little doubt they will be good captives that breed readily - and may just come in colours that capture your imagination |