albino jungle genetics question

i am not a big fan of hybrids but...
my husband really wants an albino jungle, now problem is he saw one in a pet store last year and i have yet to see another like it.

is there a genetic trait that causes a nice purple ring around the saddles?

i have seen many pictures of albino jungles, but have yet to find any with a purple ring around the saddles, or is he imagining things?

from what i remember it looked like most albino jungles only it did have a darker (pink/purple) shading around the saddles.

i probably sound like some rambling crazy person but.... i get pretty corns, i figure i should try to get him his jungle.

thanks to anyone who braves try to answer my crazy ramblings.

Heheh, no problem, I'm sure your husband appreciates it.

As you probably have figured out by now in your research, the albino jungle are more often than not either mislabeled as Jungles when they are actually Super Corns (75% corn, 25% Cali King versus 50%-50%) or the product of breeding two Jungles het albino. The problem with hybrid breeding, though, is that you can come up with a huge variety of phenotypes. I remember I was at a reptile show where I saw a jungle corn that had a red/purplish look to it and a zigzag or some sort of zipper style stripe down its back. (Now THAT was wierd.)

Because this is true you can come up with many different looks with the albino gene added. The one your husband saw in the store was most likely a jungle het amel x amel corn or het amel corn breeding, which would make the likeliness of getting those corn-like borders more probable. Imagine a very kingy looking reverse okeetee, except the borders are purple, and that's probably what your after.

So, to answer your question in a nutshell, there isn't really any predictable gene for getting that nice purple ring. The only way to really get it is to have more of the corn phenotype than the King. Hope this helps!

Maybe you should show him an Albino Cali King or Lavender Albino Florida King, or an Albino Goini!

i knew i was asking to much for it to be a simple thing LOL,

we have looked at albino cali's and liked the aberrant and banded ones a lot,
after looking up the albino florida and goini, i'll have to show him some pictures,
i told him we can check at shows, just make sure we have an extra $200 available at all times for the day he finds one he wants.


thanks for the help

Hahah, no problem. Unfortunately there aren't that many poeple that like to breed these guys. I can understand their reasons, but they're so beatiful most of the time it does bother me that more people don't...

I actually have two pairs of jungle i am trying to breed for the first time this year. The first pair is and amel jungle that looks more like a corn female and a male jungle that looks more like a king. The second pair is a snow jungle female that has a more kingsnake look to her paired with snow thats 100% corn. What would these two pairs of babies be called? I am guessing the mom in the first pair is a Super corn then as you see very little king in her.

The only way to really determine whether it actually is a Super Corn or not is to know the parents. A super corn can look more like a normal corn than a jungle, but they can also look more like kings. Also, a jungle can simply have more of a corn appearance despite being 50% king.

Since you know the Amel Female as a Jungle and it's being bred to another Jungle, I would go ahead and say that the offspring are Jungles, even if they do end up being 66% corn. The second pair though, being bred to a corn, would produce Supers.

I would guess that the 'safe' way to go is simply to call everything Super, but I don't think it really matters as much as long as King descent is noted. It really is a much messier business than the creams because someone decided to give the next generation a different name (remind me to smack them if I ever meet them).

LOl yes they did make it more complicated lol.. I think I will just call the first pairs hatchlings jungles and the 2nd pairs hatchlings supers.. I guess lol