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02-16-2007, 02:41 PM

If you want an all yellow albino you need to breed the albino banded Cal to the yellowest banded and striped Cals you can find. This has already been done and they call them Hi-Yellows or Bananas. The problem is that the yellowest Cals come from the coastal areas between San Diego and Newport and over the years desert phase black and whites and Hi-white Cals have been mixed with the Hi-Yellows and it has degraded the intensity of the yellow in many lines. These are not hybrids but rather a mix of diffent locality Cals; the Cals from coastal southern California tend to be brown and yellow while the Cals from the inland deserts tend to be black and white.
If you look hard you can still find really nice Hi-Yellows for sale but many of them carry desert influence so some of the babies can tend more towards white or cream markings intead of yellow. The alternative is to start the whole project over by breeding your albino to nice normal brown and yellow Cals. Every generation you should get some with a little more yellow pattern than the parents. By mixing the banded with the striped you will break up the pattern which will eventually lead to and 80-95% yellow snake.
If you breed your albino Cal to a MBK you will be working in the opposite direction because you will be reducing the yellow pattern with the influence of the all black MBK. As an albino this would eventually give you a colorless all white snake.
Very few people work with pure coastal brown and yellow Cals but I do know of one place, VIVID Reptiles that is working with a hypomelanistic version they call Blue-Eyed Blonds. They are rather expensive (around $150ea.) because they are hypos but they also happen to have originated in coastal San Diego county and have very strong yellow so they will give you that untainted yellow to start with that has not been mixed with desert phase. If you get a Blue Eyed Blond from Vivid be sure to get one that is already feeding on mice as that line is very close in generations to the wild and does have the tendency to want to eat lizards as hatchlings. This tendency should be reduced by breeding to your albino Cal because those have already been bred for many generations and have a stronger feeding response to rodents.

02-16-2007, 02:41 PM	#7
Aaron Mattson	If you want an all yellow albino you need to breed the albino banded Cal to the yellowest banded and striped Cals you can find. This has already been done and they call them Hi-Yellows or Bananas. The problem is that the yellowest Cals come from the coastal areas between San Diego and Newport and over the years desert phase black and whites and Hi-white Cals have been mixed with the Hi-Yellows and it has degraded the intensity of the yellow in many lines. These are not hybrids but rather a mix of diffent locality Cals; the Cals from coastal southern California tend to be brown and yellow while the Cals from the inland deserts tend to be black and white. If you look hard you can still find really nice Hi-Yellows for sale but many of them carry desert influence so some of the babies can tend more towards white or cream markings intead of yellow. The alternative is to start the whole project over by breeding your albino to nice normal brown and yellow Cals. Every generation you should get some with a little more yellow pattern than the parents. By mixing the banded with the striped you will break up the pattern which will eventually lead to and 80-95% yellow snake. If you breed your albino Cal to a MBK you will be working in the opposite direction because you will be reducing the yellow pattern with the influence of the all black MBK. As an albino this would eventually give you a colorless all white snake. Very few people work with pure coastal brown and yellow Cals but I do know of one place, VIVID Reptiles that is working with a hypomelanistic version they call Blue-Eyed Blonds. They are rather expensive (around $150ea.) because they are hypos but they also happen to have originated in coastal San Diego county and have very strong yellow so they will give you that untainted yellow to start with that has not been mixed with desert phase. If you get a Blue Eyed Blond from Vivid be sure to get one that is already feeding on mice as that line is very close in generations to the wild and does have the tendency to want to eat lizards as hatchlings. This tendency should be reduced by breeding to your albino Cal because those have already been bred for many generations and have a stronger feeding response to rodents.