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Hubby came home with meecies today, along with a new friend for Nessy!!! He is an older hatchling, looks exactly like a Reverse Okeetee (I've seen them called that or red albinos or amelanistic, not sure which one is right). He's a tiny little fella too!!!! At about 10 inches and the diameter of less than a pencil he's a spitfire!!!! Great appetite and extremely active!! We decided to bunk him with Nessy since she's so mellow and won't make him a snack! We know for a fact that our blizzard would snatch him up immediately!!! We may have hatchlings some day!! Who knows!

Just wanted to share the news on the new addition!
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Becki, loved by:

1 pet hubby
1 fur-angel, Great Dane, Lucky
1 lab/great pyr. mix, Bandit
1 grey banded king, Nitro (aka The Pig!)
1 snow corn, Nessy
1 blizzard corn, no name yet!
1 reverse okeetee corn, no name #2

You just touched the tip of the iceberg LOL. I made a count yesterday in the snake room, I had 118 snakes out there yesterday and there are 5 more then that today LOL.
Just a thought seeing that you are still starting out ( I would use the rubbermaid type Shoe Boxes to keep your hatchling in for a quaritine period (90 days on Colubrids, 180 days on Boids) incase they have any illness that could spread to your other snakes.
and 1 more thing just so you know, Red Albino and Amel are the same thing, it is a total lack of black pigment. Now the Reverse Okatee is also an Amel, but a locality type (meaning that it has a certian look, similar to a morph) but that certian look was breed to the Amel genetic mutation. Does that make any sense LOL.
Either it sounds like you are off to a nice start with your collection
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

Sounds exciting! But shouldn't you quaranteen the new comer? And it's also not a good idea to house them together. Could be asking for trouble...just my 2 cents.