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For those that keep/breed Albino Corn Snakes?
- Thread starter Saji
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What about those poor albino iguanas.Need the sun to be healthy and love to bask, yet the sun will not only hurt its eyes but also may cause skin cancer.(assuming that the lack of melanin works similiar to other animals)...At least corns are crepuscular and dont need sunlight. Albino corns also seem to live just as long as normals.
I had an albino cockatiel that would run into walls her eyesight was so bad.poor thing was always breaking blood feathers.I had to keep her wings trimmed. But she lived to be 25 so was otherwise healthy.
Not to start a big flame war or anything.
I had an albino cockatiel that would run into walls her eyesight was so bad.poor thing was always breaking blood feathers.I had to keep her wings trimmed. But she lived to be 25 so was otherwise healthy.
Not to start a big flame war or anything.
Chip
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒ&
Well, there are no albino corns, to get picky about terminology for a moment, reptiles lacking melanin are properly referred to as amelanistic. I'd reckon I currently have at least 50 snakes that can count amelanism among their genes. I have only ever had one to develop cataracts, and it was a blizzard that I kept under UVB for a year, to see if it grew any differently than a sibling without lighting. I learned a painful lesson, but that is the only eye damage I have seen in hundreds of snakes with this mutation over many, many years. I believe except for avoiding predators or filtering out UVB radiation -both situations they should avoid in captivity -amelanistic corn snakes are as hardy as their normal counterparts.
MysticExotics
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Why breed genetically inferior dogs? We keep these animals in our homes and try to give them ideal living conditions. I have pugs, which are totally unnatural, but I like the way they look and their personalities, and I won't be exposing them to 'the wild', so them being genetically inferior isn't an issue. They get all they need from me. I also love amel and amel based corns. They probably wouldn't survive very well in the wild, but they aren't in the wild, so it doesn't matter. And for what it's worth, both my pugs and my amel corns have had zero health issues.
AliCat37
Michelle's Candied Corns!
No, she brought up a very valid point. Amel is a very common recessive trait, it does not take anything away from their normal capabilities at all. The reason the dog post was brought up is because dogs have been bred in ways that does take away from their normal capabilities, yet we often see dogs as being just fine.
vetusvates
Gamaliel's Principle
Beth, I didn't know you had a 19 year old boy. What university did he choose?
smigon
Old enough to know better
Missouri School For The Blind. He is there on a football scholarship.