I recently have had a lot of inquiries and interest in the albino mexican milksnake project. I thought I would update everyone on where the project is at this point.
First off I would like to clarify that my good friend and mentor Bill Cobb did not actually collect the wild caught pair found outside Freer, TX but acquired them thru trade after they were in captivity for two yrs and two different owners failed to get them to reproduce. Bill got them in and got them to breed and I bought 1.1 of these tangerine locality offspring in 1999. In 2001 I bred the pair together and produced to my knowledge the first ever albino mexican milksnakes. We got 2 in the clutch. We kept this very quiet until 2005 when we sold 1.1 pair at the Daytona Reptile Expo. I acquired the 1.1 wc adults and bred an albino male back to the female and produced more albinos, the adult male died before we were able to raise up and albino female to breed back to him. We were able to determine that the original wc female was a het. for albino and the male was more than likely het. for nothing as Bill never produced any visual albinos.
Very few animals have been let out over the yrs. and all the animals in the project are back with Bill Cobb as of 2010. It was a tough decision for me personally, but it was made in the best interest in the project and the animals. I felt the project needed more attention then I could give, as I was breeding mainly Pythons and Boas for many yrs and my former partner Andrew Schwab was in charge of all the colubrid breeding as well as all of our rodent production. When he decided to leave the industry we sold off most of the colubrid collection and I took the annulata back.
Bill is currently working on a website that will be dedicated to the albino mexican milksnake project. Currently we have decided to holdback all offspring produced this yr. and will make them avail. again in 2012. with the launch of the website.
Kind Regards,
Susan Hardy
Hardy Reptiles
