I am wondering if anyone has information on the origin of the Albino RES in the trade. Wanting to know how long they have been available, who originally produced these, and if their are more than one genetic line available? Reason is my brother caught a wild baby albino RES. We know it is like a one in a million chance to find but not sure how many other wild caught specimins have been found and how many have been put into breeding programs. While you can buy a baby albino RES for $300-500 bucks, we know this one should be worth much more. Even though it is priceless to him as a find we are trying to put a value on this specimin as to what it would be worth to a breeder or collector as well as what it could be worth to us as a start to a new breeding program to produce a new genetic line in the market. Would appreciate anyones information and/or insight.
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Origin of the Albino RES?
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I do not know the exact origin of the first albino RES but I believe it was found sometime in the 70's. Currently there are a ton of different bloodlines of albino RES as they are breed in the millions each year on farms and a few new "first generation" albinos randomly hatch out each year. Yes the "first generation" albinos are most likely worth a little bit more as they have a new bloodline and is pure but since there are a bunch avaliable and a bunch added each year its not worth a super high premium. You can currently find albino RES on classified such as here on kingsnake or other site along with reptile shows in the $150-$250 range for babies(I saw a few at the last chicago show that had miss alinged scutes for $135) I would guess you could get the higher end of that price, maybe a little bit more but not a super high premium for it.
Well with all that being said if you were interested in getting ride of it let me know as I am one of those people who is always intrested in adding new blood to my breeding groups. Also I would be very interested in getting some pictures of the little guy if you don't mind so please send me an email at dardar52487@netscape.net
