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I thought I share some pics of one of the most beautiful albino pitvipers (at least to me).

Thes are some of my last years babys

male

female

normal female

regards,
GuidoW

beautiful..i love the markings on the normal female
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Kevin

What is quite unique about them is that you can have an albino snake that stays small and does not bury in the substrate and displays in the open all the time. Much less they are indeed perhaps the most snapping snake I ever witnessed.

Are you in the States or Europe? I have a pair of normals, and may be interested in an albino.

Dan

I acquired an F1 female P. ophryomegas from Quanacaste, Costa Rica in 1997. I acquired a male in 1998. I first bred them in 2001 and the female produced 32 offspring in 2002 - eight of which were albino. The 2003 breeding produced 34 offspring - ten of which are albino. One of them was stillborn and had two heads. In any case, I have kept most of the animals. I still have 12 albinos and around twenty 66% hets. I believe there are still some photos of them in the photo gallery under "beckherps". I have found dozens of these animals in the wild and have never found one as large as my female - about 34" long.
Regards,
Bill Becker
Immediate Past-President
International Herpetological Symposium (beckherps@socket.net)

Yes, I remember in 2001, when I showed my first albinos here in the forum that around three months later you wrote me an e-mail that you had the same luck with your breeding of ophryomegas.
Excellent animal!
In captivity the animals grow definitely larger than in their habitat.
GuidoW