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For Sale Breeding pair of albino and normal chinese beauty snakes

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I have a proven breeding pair of taiwan beauty snakes. The male is leucistic and the female is normal. Both are a little jumpy, but are healthy. Would prefer not to ship, but willing to meet in the local area. If needed to ship, would do so through SYR. Asking $250 for the pair. Will add pics later.

EDIT: was told the male is actually an albino. They are about 4 years old.
 

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sorry to ask ive never seen a lucy taiwan beauty do you have pics of them? how old are they? did you produce them?

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Darin
 
I'm not an expert on these but they look like chinese beauty's to me, still very cool snakes. I'd like to make an offer but I need to know beyond any doubt they are taiwans as I already have a male albino chinese and a normal female taiwan but don't want to produce integrades.
 
Those are Chinese Beauties (Orthriophis taeniurus taeniurus) - not Taiwans (Orthriophis taeniurus friesi). There are no known morphs in friesi, only in t. taeniurus and t. mocquardi. The pic of the "albino" is not very good, but it looks hypomelanistic, which is also sometimes erroneously called Tyrosinase positive (T+) albino.

BTW - when or if any morph is ever discovered in "pure" friesi, a single specimen will be worth MUCH more than $250...
 
No problem, Steff. There is a LOT of misinformation on the beauty snakes floating around - and it seems there are a lot of people who are selling beauties who either don't know what they have or they are trying to pass them off as something they are not.

BTW, even in O. t. taeniurus there are no known leucistics yet - the closest morph is probably "platinum" which sort of resembles a sliver-gray leucistic in a nice specimen. Also, I have seen pairs of "true" (T-) albino t. taeniurus sell for $1000. Hypomelanistic (aka T+ albino) is a much more common morph...
 
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