Possible WC hypo

[GartersRock]

"Caramel Albino" is a name dubbed a certain shade of Amelanistic (lacking melanin, black).
The strain of colors of the original snakes the amelanistics came from were a certain shade so that when the black was removed the yellows and reds etc left where a "caramel" color.
So someone gave this strain of amelanistic the saleable name "Caramel Albino".
Scott uses the name for some of his amelanistic easterns.

[infernalis]

I traded my only corn snake for a pair of redstripe ribbons. YAY!

I couldn't if I wanted to. whenever I strike a bond with an animal, it lives out the rest of it's days, however long or short right here.

CY was my first morph of any kind, and Dorothy bought him for me as a Christmas present.

Went to the pet store for snake bedding, and came home with a bonus snake. (more than once... Prolly best I order aspen on line)

Then I "Graduated" to Garter morphs. Odd, some people go the other way

Cy is family now, no matter how many red stripe anythings someone shook in my face.

[GartersRock]

I totally understand.
My brazilian rainbow boa, Pryzm. Will never go ANYWHERE. No matter how many garters she would buy me!

[Bill]

You know Gertie, I suppose I could try to bs my through that question with what I have picked up working in the pet trade for some years now but honestly I can tell you what a caramel is suppose to like but I don't know how it all breaks down and yes a lot of this lingo did come from the pet trade. The fact is snakes are one of the few reptiles were you can develope all these different aberrations because they tolerate inbreeding so well. As was said here a few posts ago you can even breed two different sub species together. Thats why there are terms that don't quite fit. snake breeding genetics are really on a new level.

[snakeman]

after reading a ton of stuff on the internet I have come to the conclusion that there are a lot of confused people around.I saw albino tigers with black stripes.I saw albino alligators with black eyes.It's amelanistic.So who wants a amelanistic flame next year?

[GartersRock]

Oh! Oh!! Oh! MEE!!!

Oh and ny the way... The conclusions I have come to in this little thread have literally changed my life!! Sweet!

[Bill]

Snakeman that was good.LOL!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

haha you are welcome.

Now I REALLY want that snake!!! when you get babies, please please paallleaaasseeeee reserve me a pair!

[Bill]

You know folks I seem to have opened up a can of worms here and I hope some good came out of it. I do have one more thing to say. We are really missing the boat here if the only concern we have is the colors we can produce. We need to focus on a strong gene pool. Large ,strong, hearty animals should be as much a concern as the color if not more. Cross breeds are a short cut. preserving the uniqueness of the different locals and breeding them to be brighter,larger and stronger should be our main concern. "And thats all I have to say about that."

[Bill]

haha you are welcome.

Now I REALLY want that snake!!! when you get babies, please please paallleaaasseeeee reserve me a pair!

You got it! I will put you first on the list!