After that we will be able to offer these for sale.Īs things progress we will post the information here. We will NOT be crossing this strain with the existing albino strain. You can bet that the baby is being well fed and is growing fast! We will be able to breed her back with her father in the spring of 2000 and that should give us a batch albino babies to work with. for albino and the baby who is female (thankfully). All we have to work with is the father who is het. We have a separate bloodline for albinism and need to keep it true. Gary informed me that to his knowledge all other albino Nelson's Milk Snakes were traceable back to his bloodlines and that this was probably only the second known strain of albino Nelson's Milk Snakes. Whew!Īt this time I contacted Gary Sipperly at San Diego Reptile Breeders because I was aware that he was producing albino Nelson's Milk Snakes. After two days we had a healthy baby albino Nelson's Milk Snake out of the egg and all was well. How was I going to sleep? Well I did, but just barely. By slitting the egg we now had about a 50/50 chance of a live hatch since that baby still had not absorbed it's yolk sack. I gently touched it with the scissors and it moved! After a generous outpouring of the obligatory "woohoo's" and other appropriate exclamations we realized something. I carefully slit the egg and was stunned to see a pink baby fully developed in the egg. But since the other egg had not pipped yet and it had been almost two days since the first one pipped I decided to help a little (I never leave well enough alone). I was on the phone at the time and by the time I had hung up the head was back out of the egg again. After a day or so Lisa noted that she had not seen the baby that day and brought it to my attention. Little did we know how we would be surprised!Ī month or so later the first of the two initial eggs laid pipped (the other five had gone bad shortly after being delivered). At that point she had been nothing but a problem so we were not suprised. Unfortunately, the female died a week later presumably from some complication of her laying. After 24 hours the remaining five eggs were palpated out and added to the initial two in the incubator. She laid two eggs and became egg bound with five more. In 1997 we were able to put some weight on her and bred her in the spring of 1998. The remaining female was not sold since she was thin and obviously not top condition. The other female did better but was sold off as she was not producing at 100%. We did not see any albinism but only had 4 - 5 babies hatch from this female. They did not thrive like captive bred and the clutches were small. This type of pattern went on for several years with these snakes acting like typical wild caught snakes. The next year we got our first clutch from the other female but it was small and only a few hatched (all normal colored). The following year one of the females did not gain much weight and did not breed. Since it was late in the season we did not try to breed them the first year. These were listed as wild caught by the owner. Included in this collection were 1.2 adult Nelson's Milk Snakes. In 1993 we purchased a collection of snakes from a collector/breeder in south Texas. In real life the color difference is striking! This strain is new and completely unrelated!Īs you can see, one obvious difference is that this one has much more yellow and much less pink than normally colored albino nelsoni. Prior to this, all albino Nelsons Milk Snakes were traceable back to Gary Sipperly's lineage (of San Diego Reptile Breeders fame). In 1998, we hatched an albino Nelsons Milk Snake ( Lampropeltis triangulum nelsoni) from known wild caught parents! This is only the second known strain of these beautiful snakes. Exotic Enterprises - New Strain of Albino Nelson's Milk Snake Produced!!! New Strain of Albino Nelson's Milk Snake!
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