Caramel Albino

Scientific Name: Python regius
Common Name: Ball Python
Morph: Caramel Albino
Genetics: Recessive Colour Mutation
First Produced By: NERD
First Produced in Canada: Mark Mandic

Description:

When you think of “Albino” you think of the classic Orange, Yellow and White albinos. Normal Albinos (T-) wipe out all of the Tyrosinase were as the Caramel Albinos (T+) allow some of the Tyrosinase enzyme to be processed creating the Caramel appearance. The only characteristic the Caramel Albino share with the “regular” Albino is the red irises.

Comments:

Caramel Albinos have been around since the mid 90’s, however, they are still rare in most collections. I purchased my first het Caramels in 1998 and in 2002 I produced a regular (T-) Albino which was totally unexpected. I have since outsourced different hets as well as a Caramel female in hopes of eventually producing Caramel Albinos. Hopefully this year (2005) I will produce a Caramel Albino from my original het female bred to a Pastel 100% het Caramel male. If not this will mean I haven’t been able to produce Caramels from het to het breeding out of 16 eggs. The odds of producing Caramels from het to het are 1 out of 4.

Update: As of March 2006 I have yet to produce a Caramel Albino.

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