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I just noticed some albino trans-pecos rat snakes in the classifieds. I wasn't aware there were albinos. Can anyone give me some background info on them. How long have they been around, were they crossed with something else to develop or was someone lucky enough to find a wild caught one, or did it just pop up in a captive clutch somewhere. Also I saw mentioned silver subocs too, what are silver ones?
Thanks,
Kirk
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1.1 Jungle Carpet Python (both gorgeous)
1.1 Ball Python (normals, he said proudly)
3.3 hatchling ball pythons (normals)
1.1 Ball Python (het for albino)(gonna make my own albino)
1.1 Corn Snake (Okeetee, Sunglow x Snow)
0.1 Gray band Kingsnake (Blairs)
1.1 Desert Kingsnake
1.1 Pueblan Milksnake (normal)(Apricot)
1.1 Andean Milksnake (Inca phase) (het)
1.0 Bullsnake (normal)(my garbage disposal snake)
1.1 Bullsnake (red bulls)
0.1 Black Pine Snake need '05 mate!
1.1 Southern Snow Pine (snow)(red phase snow)
1.1 Mexican Pine snake
1.2 Checkered garter snakes (albino pair & het female)
1.0 Rhodesian Ridgeback (Hondo)
0.1 Spouse (WC)(hates the herps,and not real crazy about the dog)

There are three seperate occurances. One was caught wild on hwy 277. One was hatched from normal looking parents in Germany and there was another animal found albino in the wild I am not sure of locality on the third one. They have been around for at least 8 years maby more.

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"Life without risk is to merely exist."

if i ain't mistaken the turd one was found by dr. david long legally out near river road...he stole it from the dobis boys' noses......YEEHAWWW

I was going to say River Road but was not sure, River road it is.
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"Life without risk is to merely exist."

There have been four albinos found on the River Road. Only one has been proven at Tracy Barker's.
Here are some of my albinos anmd silvers, both normally patterned silvers (very rare) and blonde patterned.

Simply Subocs

and the other two... the albino is the Hwy. 277 line that the Barker's (and Soderberg) first bred.
The silver is a rarer normal H-patterned '05 female. Silvers popped up serendipitously at Mark Bell's around 10 years ago.
Later on!

Dusty R.

Simply Subocs

4 albino subocs off River Rd.? Dave Long caught a baby in 1997 and Don Long(no relation) caught a subadult in or around 2003. Do you know when and who caught the other 2?

hey Aaron
Yeah...I have it written down for suboc.com. "suboc captive history" page
Eagan and one other person...I'll e-mail it to you later when I get home...I've got the names and mileages etc.

Dusty

Duh how could I forget Tim Egan's, I saw that one in person too. Funny story about that one too. The night Tim caught it Dave Long was the first person he showed it to. Tim did not know what it was and he asked Dave if it was one of those blonde subocs. Dave said ya it's a blonde and it's worth about fifty bucks, wanna sell it. Tim said ok. Then because he is a nice guy and Tim's friend Dave told him what he really had and said it's worth about $3,000. Tim sold the snake to Troy Hibbits for $2,000 a few days later.

That's a funny story. Gray-band people can be so fixated and closed-minded...nearly obsessive compulsive, that they overlook everything else. : )
(...And I'm one to talk, right?)
And then we know the sad ending to that story...poor Troy had it die on him. Ouch!

n/p
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1.1 Jungle Carpet Python (both gorgeous)
1.1 Ball Python (normals, he said proudly)
3.3 hatchling ball pythons (normals)
1.1 Ball Python (het for albino)(gonna make my own albino)
1.1 Corn Snake (Okeetee, Sunglow x Snow)
0.1 Gray band Kingsnake (Blairs)
1.1 Desert Kingsnake
1.1 Pueblan Milksnake (normal)(Apricot)
1.1 Andean Milksnake (Inca phase) (het)
1.0 Bullsnake (normal)(my garbage disposal snake)
1.1 Bullsnake (red bulls)
0.1 Black Pine Snake need '05 mate!
1.1 Southern Snow Pine (snow)(red phase snow)
1.1 Mexican Pine snake
1.2 Checkered garter snakes (albino pair & het female)
1.0 Rhodesian Ridgeback (Hondo)
0.1 Spouse (WC)(hates the herps,and not real crazy about the dog)