After working towards this goal for the past three years I finally hatched some baby albino ball pythons. It was an unusual clutch to say the least. The male was a het albino that I picked up from Jon Roylance who got it in a trade with someone who originally bought it from the Snake Keepers. So he's gone through a lot of hands before getting to me. For my females, I bought 4 50% poss het albinos 3 years ago from Dave Prada who produced them himself using a het male bred to his normal females. He got his het from Jamie Quick. Of the four females that I bought, only two were big enough to breed this year and of those two only one became gravid and laid eggs. She only laid 5 eggs. BUT, THREE of the eggs contained twins, unfortunatly two of the pairs died before hatching. The two eggs that did not contain twins, both contained albinos. Here are some pics for you....
This pic shows the two albinos, one out of the egg and one still not out yet. The egg showing the normal baby actually has two of them in there...
This picture shows the 4 babies that died in the egg. The eggs that they came out of are the ones in the bottom corners of the pic, you can see there was still a lot of yolk left.
Here are the dead babies next to their siblings, you can see that both pairs have different patterns from each other, yet are more similar to the one they were sharing their egg with. the top pair being darker even somewhat of a blackback look while the bottom pair are more banded with thinner bands. The two bottom ones weighed 16g and 18g while the top two weighed 26g and 35g. The one live albino that is already out of it's egg weighed 108g
So, what do you think?
Mark
