Albinos in Shed

[guidofatherof5]

I for one need all the help I can get when it comes to spotting my albinos in opaque(shedding) phase.
I noticed today that my W/C male T.radix was off color and I could also see a difference in his eyes.
Usually I never know they are going to shed until they do.
Those of you with albinos, lets try to upload some photos of these special snakes in opaque phase.
This photo was taken when he was swallowing a nice pinky.

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/alshed.jpg

[katach]

I can never tell when Adira is going to shed either. I end up seeing her shed and having to peel her tail off.

[zooplan]

I have only one snow male Plains Garter Snake in my stock actually.
He´s a very shy guy and shed two days ago, so it´ll last until he´ll shed again.

[guidofatherof5]

Here is my male T.s.parietalis in opaque phase.
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//773/medium/tspshed_phase.jpg

[katach]

Wow you can really see it well on him. Good to know. :)

[guidofatherof5]

*Update*

My albino male T.s.parietalis (Red Sided Garter) had a complete shed yesterday.

[ProXimuS]

Success:D



...Pics?
(You knew it was coming:p)

[guidofatherof5]

I thought you'd never ask Emily.:D

[EasternGirl]

The only thing that I have ever thought I noticed with Hermes...my albino checkered, is that his pupils look smaller before a shed and his face looks crackly. On Possum, my snow, I can see folds in his skin when he is about to shed. If I can try to catch them before their next shed...I'll post pics. I couldn't see any noticeable difference in Little Joe, my albino parietalis, at all. He just hides more.

[ProXimuS]

Curious: What is the difference between snows and albinos?

[guidofatherof5]

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//773/medium/tspshed_rresults.jpg

[ProXimuS]

OOO Very shiny! He looks really bright now:) I love their after shed pictures!

[kibakiba]

A snow is an albino mixed with an... Anery... I think. I'm pretty sure albinos are usually yellow, snows are pink with no pattern, as fa as I can tell.

[ConcinusMan]

Curious: What is the difference between snows and albinos?

Snows are double homozygous for Albino and anery or axanthic, or in the case of snow easterns, albino and melanistic.

Albino takes away the dark colors but leaves red, yellow, etc alone. The anery or axanthic gene takes away the red/yellows and leaves you with a snake that has no pigment/pattern. It's two mutations in one snake.

If that albino red sided pictured above, was also anery, the snake would be totally "snow" white.

Snows don't occur in nature, but albinos and anery's do. Combine the two in captivity and you get a "snow"

[ProXimuS]

Ahhh, I see, thanks yall:)

[guidofatherof5]

I found one of my Red Sided (T.s.parietalis) babies in opaque phase.
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/albino_shed.jpg

[katach]

Is that Gavan or his brother?

[guidofatherof5]

Is that Gavan or his brother?

Nope.

[snakechick]

I finally caught my albino red sided (Roger) in opaque phase...i think :). This will only be the second time he has shed since I got him. His face seems to get really white.
http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc469/chranek/DSC_1734.jpg

[ProXimuS]

Pretty! He definitely looks to be in opaque phase.

[guidofatherof5]

Thanks Carly for that photo. Very nice.

[mikem]

Nice shot. Definitely in shed :)

[guidofatherof5]

Here's my T+(NE.)albino t.radix female (Granger) in opaque phase (shedding phase).
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//802/medium/granger_shed_2.jpg

[kibakiba]

She looks kind of like a white demon thing!

[Eight]

I've always found with albinos that its all about the eyes.

[Eight]

Snows are double homozygous for Albino and anery or axanthic, or in the case of snow easterns, albino and melanistic.


Is that correct? I thought albinos were amelanistic and melanistic was the opposite, with a more than normal amount of black pigment. I'm probably just reading it wrong, or does the melanistic mutation pretty much colour the whole snake black and the amelanistic then removes the black pigment? I'm pretty rubbish with genetics but this got me interested :)