I keep a few colubrids, and mostly ball pythons, but I couldn't pass up on a beautiful pair of Albino Sonoran Gophers yesterday at the Repticon Atlanta show. Ben Siegel had them and said that he acquired them from Matt Turner.



I've been reading up on them voraciously since I got home yesterday and today, and of course getting more confused about the difference between gophers and bulls. And not being pit savy enough, their patterning looks more like the bull examples I'm seeing. Are these pictures good enough to tell for sure? These are the only two pictures taken so far of either of them - this is the female. The male's markings are the same, just a bit deeper and richer in color.



Both are absolute gems to handle and I'm in love already and I'm looking forward to working with them. I don't know if I'll ever breed them, I didn't acquire a pair for the express purpose of doing so - but more because I just couldn't decide between the two - and if I decide I like working with them enough, then breeding isn't out of the realm of possibility a few years from now.



So - all you good folks, what do you think?








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