Well milkheads, this is all the photos of the micropholis I could locate. The colors are a little off due to digitizing dark slides and scanning old prints! I thought the female (2nd pic) I had in 1971 was more tangerine orange but she looks more of a red/orange with the ventral being much brighter than the dorsal due the black pigment obscurring its intensity. I am not sure if the specimens from Colombia and Venezuela have the same red/orange ground color or not. In the pics on the forum they look more of a true red.



Anyway the (1st pic), as close as I can remember, was given to me when Helmut Hansen (who has a snake-shop in Zurich Switzerland) was over here in the late 90s working on a book on Kingsnakes. At the time, it was the only book actually written in the German language on kingsnakes and not translated like Markel's book was. I may be wrong on that but I think that is what he said about it. He also had secured the first albino hondurans out of Eastern Europe after the wall went down. I believe he had heard about them but due to the lack of information available while the separation existed, he could not obtain them. Of course you know the rest of the story once they got to the United States and Western Europe many variations were produced.



The gentlemen from Germany that has the great web-site (great to keep up with the reading of German even if you never can speak it!) with great color photos - might be able to comment further if these indeed were the only albino hondurans produced from that F1 clutch. I recently saw a post on the Indigo forum from an Dry breeder in the Netherlands, that and albino eastern indigo had been produced in Europe 10 years ago from a F1 breeding of siblings. I guess the hobby has been around a long time in some of those countries!



The last photo is a bit off,it was the male Glen Slemmer obtained originally from Western Zoo along with the female (pic 2) that I was fortunate to secure.



Cheers

Bill Lamoreaux

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