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Found this pick on Bob Applegates site (which is linked to below). Is this what everyone is talking about? Pretty cool snake. Now, wheres the albino

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A dude in Austin hatched it years ago and lost it. Worse I think he had no idea what breeders were used to produce, that or he disposed of the breeders before the eggs hatched. I was very familiar with the story because I knew the guy and he was geographically close to me - but it was too painful to keep in the fresh part of my brain. I've posted a photo of it in the past, someone will repost or I will dig it up. I did not own the photo, it was a copy.
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http://www.hcu-tx.org

from what I understand it was eaten by its proposed mate!

I had the honor of photographing that ill-fated albino thayeri for its owner.

Here is the link to one of the photos of it along with a brief write-up about it in the Jan. 1994 issue of Captive Breeding Magazine (now defunct).
First albino thayeri

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Gerald Keown
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research
www.southwesternherp.com

Drats! Sorry about that.
Here is the correct link:
First albino thayeri

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Gerald Keown
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research
www.southwesternherp.com

I'll have to have the roomy post a pic when he gets back home tomorrow, but we have an almost black '06 thayeri. She has a very faint pattern. We did get 2 more this year, but the little stinkers are being difficult to get eating. Amazing, since the parents are the normal grey with the red in the saddles.
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Kare

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>>Found this pick on Bob Applegates site (which is linked to below). Is this what everyone is talking about? Pretty cool snake. Now, wheres the albino

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www.mesozoicreptiles.com

gotta admit i think that one's the niceer looking of the two but the patterned amel above would be just as stunning to see hatch out....fascinating species.
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