Morphs

[herptrader]

Your pictures do add a lot of weight to your argment.

It would be really interesting to find out what happened to that animal. Somebody must know.

[BROWNS]

I actually do know who would know exactly what happened to the animal but i can't find him anywhere.I'm hypothetically saying that someone most likely did realise the significance of the animal at that time and it did mysteriously dissapear.

If someone knew the importance of the albino they would definitely have at least tried to breed from it and when i saw it and fed it etc it was a full grown adult in with a regular bhp most likely than not the one in the same photos.The gene is out there and there has also been a second albino maccy found in the similar area as the first that was found and handed in to NPWS.These apparently have blue eyes but sorry just going on info from a good source and have no pics nor seen either of these.

I posted a pic a while back of an albino brown tree snake a friend of mine caught while still alive after it had just been hit by the car in front of him and it's now preserved in a jar but i don't have the pics on the pc i'm using.This animal was so white it was see through and i've seen pics of it while still alive at the vets.

[Ricko]

got any pics of the albino maccy's? and im with you on the theory you have browns.

[BROWNS]

Nh mate no pics..
Also if albinism was more likely to occur from inbreeding you would think that with the amount of inbreeding and crossing of all morelia in the US yet they have never hatched out an albino carpet to date.They have jags and granite and all the rest but still no albinos.I'm sticking with what i think unless someone can prove otherwise.

[Gabe]

Originally Posted by BROWNS

These apparently have blue eyes but sorry just going on info from a good source and have no pics nor seen either of these.

Blue eyed albinos? Sounds like leucistics.

[NCHERPS]

Originally Posted by Gabe

Blue eyed albinos? Sounds like leucistics.

I agree, they do sound like Leucistic's, and they are far rarer than Albino's to.

Obviously, all snakes originate from the wild, so there genes(Albino's or otherwise) would also be carried down through our captive generations, the issue at point is , ' How many generations captive bred are the parents, grandparents etc?'
Hopefully, we will gain more info in regards the bhp's recently bred, but as I have already mentioned in an earlier thread, it is possible and in my opinion, more likely that there is no secret albino wc fonder animal being held in captivity, just a guy that got lucky by pairing up two multi-generational hets, just as did the breeders of the albino GTP's in the US.

Of course how the US and Europe as a whole originally acquired the Aussie snakes many years ago, isn't a mystery, the majority of founder animals were wc illegally exported/smuggled, with a minority maybe being obtained legally from animals acquired from legally held stock in US zoo's.

Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part, but I like the idea that anyone at anytime could just produce something highly unusual in captive collections .

[hugsta]

I agree with Neil, I believe they were bred from two normal looking BHPs that had unknown genes. After all albinos have to originate from normals somehow, or else albinos would be common.