Well, I have seen some photos of absolutely AWESOME true-blue micropholis adults from many, many years ago, including an anerythristic specimen, but back then the breeding of snakes just wasn't like it is today. To be honest, most people never even thought about breeding, they just liked owning the snakes.

Like so many other kinds of rarities that HAVE popped up here and there over time in more recent years, like amel Eastern milks, amel Scarlet kings, genuine amel Eastern kings, etc..., so many things have seemed to have happened that prevented these from surfacing in the mainstream hobby. Either they don't breed, have firtility problems, and of course I have also heard about extremely rare snakes dying in rack fires before they could be bred and all sorts of things.

There was a guy a couple years ago that posted about his micro's that were acquired from a western zoo just before Ecuador stopped importing. I also know of a guy that got rid of his micropholis because it kept biting him..LOL!

Man, I would actually OFFER to get bitten on a daily basis if I were lucky enough to have pure micropholis..

Anyway, heah, it is a bummer about all the stuff that interferes with cool stuff ever getting established. Back in 1996 at the Expo in Orlando, I had the chance to buy a pair of 100% het amel Scarlet kings that were offspring of an albino elapsoides male that a guy discoverd while raking his yard of leaves!!!. But at the time, I thought it over, and had too many other projects that I neeeded to buy mates for. These have never surfaced into the hobby after that time either. Sometimes weird fate just intervenes and nips things right in the bud..LOL!

I did see a photo of a guy's albino Scarlet king a year or two ago that posted it here, so maybe he can get some going into the hobby. The problem with those is that they can be dificult to get feeding, and are sometimes tough for even well-seasoned keepers. Then they have very small clutches, and the tiny babies can be very problematic to get feeding too.

Anyway, yeah, it seems that there can always be factors that make certain things virtually unobtainable to us in this hobby. Sometimes many things have to fall in place just right for this to happen. Same with Shannon's very sad dixoni story........RIGHT SHANNON!!..


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