I found an Albino Garden Snake

[BUSHSNAKE]

wheres mine from? Multolath county?...the adults do ok for me

[ConcinusMan]

Like I said, Steve's are clark co wa. The rest from Multnomah co Oregon. I know the adults I sent out do well. But you also have to figure that I get a lot of them that flat refuse to eat and settle down. The adults I sent out already proved to be doing well in captivity before I sent them out. I am often forced to release many of them.

[BUSHSNAKE]

ok thanks

[katach]

I had pretty good luck with my baby NWs. Shoot any questions you have my way, I'll help if I can.

[mustang]

!!!!!!THAT SNAKE IS AMAZING!!!!!!!
nice snake

[RedSidedSPR]

That's gotta be a NW, cause it ain't sirtalis.... And from what i've read that's a pretty awesome, rare find! I know someone here will be pretty exited and possibly pissed.

EDIT: Whooooops didn't see the other 3 pages. Guess what i said was pretty pretty obvious now!

[ConcinusMan]

Well there are only 3 previous albinos of this species found that are documented and for sure confirmed. And that's over a period of about 25 years. Then one was found in Sherwood last spring, (long gone and we'll never see or hear about it again) and now this one. A second chance to produce hets. The thing is, the gene for albino is not in the captive hobby. I would like to see that change but it seems that every time someone finds one, they either sell it and it's never seen again, or it's someone who has 0 experience with keeping snakes. I'd like to see this one live and breed in captivity but alas, I have no control over it. So it's like dangling a carrot in front of me that I can never reach, if you know what I mean. This is obviously a baby and probably won't live to breed unless someone with experience raises it up and breeds it. It's frustrating. Can you imagine if flicker (that erythristic I borrowed a while back from a lady in Portland) was albino too? And we already know that melanistics are common in British Columbia so making snows would be possible too. But an erythristic albino would be the ultimate.

[infernalis]

I have sent an email to her asking for an update.

[ConcinusMan]

Oh so that's why it said you were "emailing" a few minutes ago. OK great. I also sent the pics and report of where it was found, to Dr. Robert Mason so maybe it can go on record.

[d_virginiana]

I would kill to find an aberrant morph like that in the wild. I mean, clearly no chance of NWs in the South, but it would be really exciting
I really wish whoever the original poster was would post back so we could at least get an update and know she read the caresheets and everything...