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Originally Posted by boaterr
O ok. I was talking about when i asked "Did you have any evidence" and you replied
I just wanted to hear what your experiences with albinos where. I forgot to add that the I have only experienced problems with albino boids not colubrids.
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Hi boaterr,
Well, until this year, all of my albino breeding experience going back 19 years was with colubrids (I now have a trio of 2007 het albino boas).
I never bred on anything remotely like the scale of some of the guys on here, but I can say that I never encountered any problems that I could pin to albinism. Albino corns producing clutches of 20 that all hatched successfully, the babies themselves growing normally and breeding with other corns with equally pain-free results.
One guy I sold a 4-year-old snow corn to still had him, in good shape, 11 years later (I lost touch with the chap years back, but it will have passed on now unless it's broken the longevity record!).
So although that is by no means enough of a sample from which to draw firm conclusions, you will understand that it inclines me to the belief that albinos can generally live healthy and normal lives.
I don't know of an obvious reason why albino colubrids would avoid the problems you report with boids.
