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Rtdunham
at Mon Sep 5 15:05:19 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Rtdunham ]
john,
One or two of those are some of the most dramatic vanishing pattern tangerine albinos i've ever seen.
you asked if people had seen any patterns similar to that, i've attached a photo of my vanishing pattern extreme hypo male. his markings (the size & placement, not the color) remind me of the markings on one or two of your albinos.
i think using "extreme" will confuse matters rather than clarify them. I suspect the "need" to create an additional name is really not necessary, because we've almost never seen a true vanishing pattern tangerine albino. Thje problem is that people mis-use terms and call some animals that should be called "pinstripe tangerine albinos" "vanishing" patterns instead. It's the same looseness with standards that has some people advertise as "tangerine albinos" animals that are merely halfway between a tricolor and a tangerine. But if you look back at some of the vanishing pattern hypos people produced, they're the pattern equivalent of your albinos, and I think the name is still right on. And we're probably better served by being consistent.
Most importantly, where will you draw the line: will we end up with the same gray areas between what you call an extreme vanishing pattern and just a "regular" or "intermediate" vanishing pattern that we now have with "extreme" hypos? we've already got, in the patterns, "regular/pinstripe/vanishing" pattern in a sort of continuum. Do we want to create additional divisions in each of those, and expect people to use the labels consistently? or would we be better off sticking with three categories?
Lastly, there have been animals shown in the past where people disagreed whether they were albinos or extreme hypos. I think adding "extreme" to the label for a type of albino is really gonna confuse some people. Eventually, someone will propose to have an "extreme-extreme". Ouch!
Anyway, i think you've shown us pictures of several of the prettiest and most dramatic vanishing pattern tangerine albinos i've ever seen. Way to go! And for those who have seen only the pix, john was nice enough to invite me over to see the animals in person, and they're as beautiful "live" as in the pix--or moreso. They're gonna make some striking adults.
peace
terry
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- Extreme Vanishing Tangerine Albinos - jlambert, Sun Sep 4 14:20:22 2005
- wow awesome snakes good job.. - milki, Sun Sep 4 14:23:42 2005
- John,Those are awesome man.Can't get much better than that.n/p - shannon brown, Sun Sep 4 15:25:09 2005
- Outrageous!!!!!!!! - Nokturnel Tom, Sun Sep 4 15:54:03 2005
- RE: Extreme Vanishing Tangerine Albinos - RobHaneisen, Sun Sep 4 19:28:19 2005
- Beautiful !! n/p - pweaver, Sun Sep 4 19:53:19 2005
- RE: Extreme Vanishing Tangerine Albinos - jlassiter, Mon Sep 5 00:35:59 2005
 gorgeous snakes, john, here's... - Rtdunham, Mon Sep 5 15:05:19 2005
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