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I was thumbing through an old Reptiles magazine (1999, I think), and saw a photo of an albino Green Anaconda. The article with the picture stated that this animal was for sale, bidding was to start at $45,000. I have not been able to find anything on this since. Has anyone have any idea whatever happened to this snake and if it is currently involved in any breeding projects?

Thanks,
Scott

The last that I heard about him was that he got killed (by a fork lift) in shipping. He was sold for 1,000,000. I don't know if that is true, but if it is you know someone lost there job.

Thanks for the info. This is really a shame, according to the one picture I saw this was a beautiful animal. Hopefully another will surface again someday.

Thanks

You must be really stupid to have a one million dollar snake SHIPPED. I would have it personally picked up by me or someone I trust. I think something else happened to it, unless that person was really that stupid. Peace.

I believe I saw the snake in question at a party held one night following the opening day(?) of the last Las Vegas IRBA show, back on thanksgiving weekend of 1999, at Rainwater Reptiles. I don't know if this falls into the timeline of the forklift incident. It was quite a pretty snake, one of the nicer albino boids I've seen. They also had a hypomelanistic yellow anaconda for some outrageous price which really ticked me off since I had had a faded looking yellow for years that I figured was just kinda plain, not something anyone would choose over a normally pigmented yellow. They also had a leusistic nile monitor, which if you bought for 10 grand they'd throw in a regular nile (maybe a 50% het for some soon to hit nile phenomena.....) for free!

Guy

tHE ONE YOU SAW IN THE MAGAZINE was killed, but most people that saw it say it was purposely done. The guy traded it to the barkers for alot less than what he was asking but insured it for 45,k. In the end they assume it was a big insurance scam, on behalf of who was selling it. Not by the barkers though to make that clear. Sadly it was dead upon arrival and instead of forklift marks it had bat marks on it.
There is currently one more tyrosine negative (like in the mag)and two tyrosine positives in private collections right now. The t='s are a orange color with purple dots. Real cool looking. The are currently 8 feet long,
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"Quality isn't Quality without customer service so I guess I sell quality"

I thought that Lou Daddano freak that gets killed by his snakes all of the time killed it.

It is bad enough to lose this animal, but under these circumstances is tragic. Thanks to all who posted.

Thanks,
Scott