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AbsoluteApril
at Tue May 3 13:51:25 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by AbsoluteApril ]
The male albino baby's skin seems normal only the female has the paper-thin skin... it's very odd. Out of the litter there was only one other albino baby that was as pale as her and it died in the first 2 months.
The mom, I call her Lemondrop since she's such a bright yellow, as you said doesn't have much color. Her saddles are white and very hard to see in normal light (they show up more in the pics than in person!). She has very pale pink/orange color in the tail saddles, the only *real* color on her is up on her face and neck. Along the cheeks and about 8-10" down the neck she has speckles of bright pink, clusters of about 6-15 scales. The pink runs a line down each side of the neck and around the edges of the first few saddles. But overall she's just a big yellow snake. 
Here are a few pics taken that show her color the best, I have a very hard time taking pictures of yellow and white with my camera (olympus 2.0 digi)
Here she is gravid, you can see a little of the peachy/pink color at the edge of the saddles up top, hard to see tho..
Here I am holding her and you can see a little color near my thumb, this is where the color stops on her sides.
I hope to breed her with the het again this year, she's had 2 years of break now. The male doesn't have much color, he's a failry dark het and has more orange in his tail then red..
thanks for the comments!
I'm curious to see how the babies turn out.
-april
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about the mom... - AbsoluteApril, Tue May 3 13:51:25 2005