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Imagine an albino Brahminy blind snake!
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DAVE

1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
0.0.1 Eastern ribbon snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
1.1 rough green snakes
1.1 giant African black millipedes
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
0.1 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
0.0.1 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.1 Western hognose snakes
1.2 fire salamanders
1.1 scarlet kingsnakes
0.0.1 scarlet snake
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
1.1 Southern ringneck snakes
0.0.1 night snake
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
0.1 Pine woods snake
1.0 rough earth snake
0.1 (parthenogenic) Brahminy blind snake
0.1 Northern brown snake

Seeing as how small brahminy blind snakes are. Also, because of the fact that brahminy blind snakes are all male and female, it one carried the albino trait, there would be albinos everywhere. In the wild, not too many predators eat the brahminys because they barely come to the surface. If there were albinos found, there would be thousands more.

Mike
Michael's Place

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Hi,

I know that it is unlikely, but you never know. I just thought it would be cool to imagine how one looked. Maybe there will be one in the future; it has to start somewhere! Anyway, I'm really glad that I found the one who escaped.

Some other cool visions:

albino night snakes, lyre snakes and cat-eyed snakes
albino scarlet snake
albino scarlet kings
melanistic pinewoods snake
melanistic DeKay
albino green snakes
leucistic regal ringneck
Albino Kirtland's snakes, swamp snakes, queen snakes...

I am not that much into morphs, and prefer a good old regular phase, but hey, while we probably will never see any, they would still make a good watercolor painting!
You get the idea...
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DAVE

1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
0.0.1 Eastern ribbon snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
1.1 rough green snakes
1.1 giant African black millipedes
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
0.1 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
0.0.1 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.1 Western hognose snakes
1.2 fire salamanders
1.1 scarlet kingsnakes
0.0.1 scarlet snake
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
1.1 Southern ringneck snakes
0.0.1 night snake
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
0.1 Pine woods snake
1.0 rough earth snake
0.1 (parthenogenic) Brahminy blind snake
0.1 Northern brown snake

albino night snakes, lyre snakes and cat-eyed snakes Albino night snakes exist
albino scarlet snake They exist
albino scarlet kings They exist
melanistic pinewoods snake The albinos look better
melanistic DeKay They exist
albino green snakes They exist
leucistic regal ringneck I want one
Albino Kirtland's snakes, swamp snakes, queen snakes Albino queen snakes exist, a Kirtland's snake normal is rare enough.

Mike
Michael's Place

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Oh that must look interesting an albino scarlet kingsnake.

Melanistic dekay? I caught a Leucistic. Very cool little black eyed pink snake.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

They are not both male and female, they are parthenogenetic, which means that the females are able to clone themselves. Making any genetic variation a result of spontaneous mutation. Any way if you want an albino fossilith whats wrong with the western blind snake or a thunder lizard like I have.
Link

http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpeciesSH.asp?curGroupID=7&shapeID=1059&curPageNum=1&recnum=AR0711
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Do you see such a snake much , what do you feed it? Interesting looking I didnt know they existed.
From what I understand tiny snakes,lizards,etc that live in those micro climates can be very hard to keep temp,humidity wise.
Do you find this to be the case?
Thanks

I've read alot of anedotical information, not much is really known. I was careful to match the PH to that of the soil he was found in which was alkaline. Also I use plastic eggcrating,PVC tubing and a computer fan to suspend the substrate an inch above the bottom of the tank to allow full drainage. the compter fan blows over the layer of water underneath the substrate through the PVC. The result, besides moist but well drained soil, is a greater thermal gradient, with a heat pad attached to side of the tank at one end towards the top, the gradient is 65 to 82 in a ten gallon tank. I have had him for over a year and he's doing well.

Oh yes he is doing well if you have him a year. You put thought into his enviroment.
I have never kept any of those tiny micro climate snakes but have read in my reptile book that they can be the hardest of them all. I love the small snakes but to bad as a whole you never see them but we like what we like.