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Hi,

Anybody got any pics of their Adult Albino Leucistic pine snakes, stunning snakes but there dosent seem to be to many about.

Thanks

BTW A Leucistic is NOT an Albino, Dark eyes!

I know that Albino pines are not Leucistic pines, but I have seen albino leucistic southern pines for sale and have never seen one and thats why I was hoping to see some pics of them.

They are misleading you,they are albino patternless, exactly what makes a snake turn leucistic is still unknown but scientist injected a proper color chromasome into the scale of a albino snake and it scale recieved the color and changed into the proper color, when the same treatment was given to a leucistic specimen the color was rejected. So thou we can recreate them we still can't explane 'em, or why we cant create an albino leucistic... My advise is to stick with leucistic and aviod the albino fad, due to their weeker genes, beginners like the designer snakes, true respectible pros only breed normal snakes to normal snakes. sorry if that offends anyone. JB

I totally agree.
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Matt Kauffman

Hi,

Thanks for the info.

No offence taken.

I was puzzled on the albino leucistic, thinking down the lines of albino southern bred with a leucistic southern, hence the albino leucistic, and with me never seeing an adult albino leucistic I thought somebody on here probably had one or had seen one before.

So when I have seen for sale an albino leucistic southern pine snake, is it an albino patternless like you said but where does the leucistic come into it if any?

Thanks

Leucisticisem is not a designer phase, like a bubblegum or a creamcicle, or a zig zag, these are pattern varaiants of albinos, and some are not albinos but just designer patterns, like ghosts or patternsess... but there are hundred new terms thought up every year for pines and other types, but a leucistic is a snake with out color pigment, It is alone and in a class of its own, there can be no phases created out of a leucistic animal, if it has any pattern at all or it has pink eyes, then it is a patternless albino, leucistics have dark eyes and no color except a faint tinting of yellow or tan or brown or pink but no pattern and no bad genes. JB

They must be leucistic then because they have a very faint pattern on the end of the tail and dark eyes, no pink eyes and no pattern any where else on the body

Thanks for the info,

Also they do have a faint tint of yellow and tan.

Thanks

Could you share a reference for that experiment? Sounds like an interesting read

Thanks,
Paul