Hi Terry,

The amel Cal king strains were found in coastal Cal kings - those snakes are brown and yellow in much of what is considered "coastal" habitat. So that explains the yellow bands - they are yellow in the normals too.



Black and white Cal kings are from desert habitats typically, although certain non-desert locales produce some white bands too in the less southerly reaches of their range. I caught a light brown and off-white Cal king in Santa Barbara county once. Cal kings vary with the locale.



Anyway, back to the albinos - getting an albino black and white Cal king is tough to do starting from the yellow-banded albino stock. That yellow is not easy to completely remove. It can be done of course, just would take alot of selective breedings.



Years ago a breeder advertised albino black and white kings supposedly from a wild-caught albino black and white. That was the story anyway. I saw a picture of one, it had white bands.
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Mark

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