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Whats the difference between Albino Brooks and Sulfur?

One is Albino.
The other is not.
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YEAH WHAT FUNKY SAID.

one is albino and the other is just a yellow snake.

With albinism and other RECESSIVE traits you have carriers of that gene that can be passed on. With a pheotype it gets washed out everytime you outcross it. The sulfur is just that. A simple trait and not a reccessive trait.

but the sulfur line was bred into the albino "trait" and that created a sulfur lavender

this is what they look like:

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I thought they looked like this

Damn that is a nice Sulfur lav. How did you ever talk me out of that?
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I think you told me you sent me the SulPHURiest one you had(LOL)for lack of a better term

Chris
You should take more pics of that snake and post.
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Frank Retes

I agree. That thing is smoking!
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A few years ago alot of phases were referred to as HI YELLOW, now none are....names change etc...

>>A few years ago alot of phases were referred to as HI YELLOW, now none are....names change etc...

True names do change, but a nice sulfur is much more rich in color than any BHB Super Brooksi or Glades Canal Brooks. They truly are different in person. I know it's cliche', but pictures don't do them any justice at all. You want some High Yellow?.....here ya go. HY has been re-assigned to chondros. lol.

Sorry. I had to. I've sorta been traded to another team. lol. So, here is a king to stay on topic. I believe Tom Stevens has this girl now.

Brandon
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I thought SULPHUR was brought up to begin with because EVERYTHING was hi yellow.....and SULPHER was different. Now, no HI YELLOW except a random speckled king or cal king....Funny how names change.

That first started calling them Hi Yellow instead of brooks.

Len Krysko was also the first to name the Hi-Yellow School Bus Tampa kings "sulfur"

Very nice Brandon!
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Darwin Rocks!

Hey Tony, I can't help myself. lol. I just sit in my snake room and stare at these guys all the time.

thanks
Brandon
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Hi-yellow implies actually yellow coloration. Brooks kings really don't have all that much yellow... more of a pale cream color.

If you made that comment daily for the next 5 years on here people still won't listen. I am guilty as charged with the high yellow thing but I wonder what type of response the hobby would have as far as demand goes over real pale Brooksi?
Tom Stevens
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If you made that comment daily for the next 5 years on here people still won't listen. I am guilty as charged with the high yellow thing but I wonder what type of response the hobby would have as far as demand goes over real pale Brooksi?
Tom Stevens

If you have seen brandons high whites they were the look more brooksi guys sought after and they had no yellow. These high whites were more common back then. i had some screamers but sold them after the hypos appeared on the market.

Still kinda hard to beat a yellow hypo brooks. Just that they are common now and the high whites have dissapeared. It seems things have a way of coming back around in this hobby. A subject we have discussed before between the two of us.
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"You do not breed them, they breed themselves. That sorta takes you out of the picture. All you become is a poop scooper and cage cleaner"
Frank Retes

I don't think there are that many people that care what color their brooks is, or how patternless it looks. There are relatively few who know what a brooks king is supposed to look like, and most probably would not prefer that, or care all that much. As long as the snake is light colored, 95% of anyone is content to call it a brooks, and would be happy with it. I'm a perfectionist, and I strive to have the best looking wild-type (non-morph) examples of everything I keep, so I idealize the classic brooksi pattern and coloration.

My real point was that yellow isn't a very common color in Florida kings... often they have a very pale yellow coloration (not what I would call "High Yellow", and on most of them it is really just an extremely light brown coloration. Out of over 100 Florida kings I've caught, only 4 or 5 could really be said to have had yellow coloration. The captive kingsnake lines I think should be called high yellow are the sulfurs and mahogany kings, both of which originate from Hillsborough County, FL.

Sulfurs are a locality derived color varient line bred for intense yellow coloration. Albino Brooks are crosses.
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