If you looked at the original normal nelsoni stock in the USA prior to the amel popping up, you would see animals with lots and lots of black in many cases. Perhaps it was a locality thing? Don't know myself (and not all were like that). As amels, these would look like your picture I would think.



I would say your pic is what an amel version of classic nelsoni would look like. So why don't more look like yours? Maybe along with the original albinos there were pattern abberancies passed on (i.e. bullseye)? But maybe, just maybe, in the early days, anything that looked remotely like nelsoni was used in breeding.. like Sinaloans.. so that today's nelsoni are so high-red? Just throwing out conspiracy theory here. I really do not know.

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• High White Albino Nelson Question ***WITH PICTURE*** - sushiking, Tue Apr 20 19:50:18 2004
• Remember that snake would normally be mostly black...more - Jeff Schofield, Tue Apr 20 20:22:09 2004
• RE: I would think more should look that way - markg, Fri Apr 23 14:51:53 2004
• no conspiracy, simpler explanation - rtdunham, Sat Apr 24 14:18:37 2004
• RE: no conspiracy, simpler explanation - sushiking, Sat Apr 24 15:00:32 2004
• RE: no conspiracy, simpler explanation - markg, Mon Apr 26 17:40:26 2004
• RE: no conspiracy, simpler explanation - rtdunham, Wed Apr 28 11:36:55 2004
• RE: yeah, selective breeding - markg, Mon Apr 26 17:51:38 2004
• Here is a neat side view picture. - sushiking, Wed Apr 28 01:41:25 2004