There were some albino bearded dragons hatched 2 or 3 years ago, also in Australia. Maybe from the same parents? Here is a copy/paste from the thread on kingsnake:
Posted Jan 05, 2002-
***These dragons were produced by a guy in australia 1 or 2 years ago. Since he lives in australia he kept them in outside pens. This summer an over enthusiastic neighbor apparently used too much pesticide and the overflow killed most of his stock. He still has the parents, and I think there was 12 or 15 total albino babies. He is going to be breeding the parents again next summer. I can't remember his name, but I'll try to look it up. ***
***Posted by Bob Withey on February 14, 2002 at 16:45:48:
I believe someone wanted to know about my Albino babies. I have ten in total so far. One from the first clutch this season, nine from the second clutch. I still have one more clutch to hatch.
The parents of these babies were 3rd generation yellows that hatched very pale indeed. No yellow at all. So I kept a few and raised them. The result being these beautiful albinos, right down to the pink eyes.
The oldest one is now about 6 weeks, the other 9 are about 2 weeks. So far they are all doing fine. I am using an old Reptisun 5% tube to give them UVB. Hopefully, being an old tube it will not damage their eyes.
I did not mention before that I do live in Australia, and therefore, I cannot legally export.
Allready I have had a few emails from people in the USA wanting these Albino's.***
This was posted Jan 04, 2002:
***As some people might know I have been breeding Yellow Bearded Dragons for
some years now. Two tears ago I had several clutch's of very pale Dragons
from a yellow girl mated with a yellow boy. Where these pale colours come
from beats the hell out of me. They should have been yellow.
>
> I decided to raise some to see what they would turn out like so I hung
onto 3 girls and 3 boys. At 9 months of age one of my girls dropped her
first clutch of eggs. When these hatched they again where very pale but
this time with red lines running down either side of their backs. Extremely
attractive. I had around 80 eggs hatch at the start of last winter. Some
of you may even own some of these.
>
> Well my first clutch for this season started to hatch yesterday. When I
took the lid off the container I could see 3 heads sticking out of their
eggs. The first 2 appeared normal pale colours but the third look different.
Here was a pink head looking at me with red eyes. I waited another six
hours then checked again. The 3 were now all out of their eggs and sure
enough, 1 completely pink albino vitticeps.
>
> As far as I am aware this is the first one recorded even with all the
millions bred in the USA.
>
> The big question will be how to raise it. Dragons need UV light to grow
properly. Will the UV have an effect on the albino skin and or eyes. I
would look forward to any comments from people who breed these lizards.
>
> I only wish I had a digital camera so I could post a picture for people to
see. If anyone who lives in the Gosford area and has a digital camera who
would be willing to do so, please contact me.
>
> Regards
> Bob
>
> PS And before you ask it is not for sale at this stage.**
So are these albinos that were spoken of in the threads on kingsnake related to these "new" albinos? From what I can determine by reading the posts on kingsnake, these albinos were produced by breeding siblings together to enhance the light yellow color in the offspring, and then out popped a few albinos. Pretty interesting.
They look great!
