Cake the high-contrast albino! (photography explosion)

[redshepherd]

I just joined this forum, though I've been lurking on and off for the past few years. My permanent residents so far are Cake the albino male BP and Vigil the Dumeril's Boa. I also have a black pastel female that I was planning on breeding to Cake in the long-term to produce albino black pastels, but that interest in the plan fell through. :s

But this is Cake's thread...

I just obtained him as a hatchling from Breeder's Circle at the end of May 2015. I'm getting that Cake is relatively high-contrast (post-processing helps, but he really is high-contrast in real life too!), though I'm not sure if this is a one time fluke or something that can be passed on.

This was when he was around 80g only two months ago!





A LITTLE bit bigger...



The little golden garden prince with Portulacaria afra.







A pretty candid tub photo just to show his colors.

[redshepherd]

I tried posting more photos in a 2nd post, but it was getting denied- so I guess these will just have to do for now!

[CrazyAnimalLady]

Wow! Beautiful snake!

[Minkness]

Jeezus! He practically glows!!!

Not usually a fan of albinos but daaang...he's pretty! Will he keep that contrast and color as an adult?

[redshepherd]

Originally Posted by CrazyAnimalLady

Wow! Beautiful snake!

Thanks! I'm thinking about finding a high-contrast albino female in a year or so to breed him to.

Originally Posted by Minkness

Jeezus! He practically glows!!!

Not usually a fan of albinos but daaang...he's pretty! Will he keep that contrast and color as an adult?

I have no clue if it will stay when he's full-grown, but I sure hope so! He's 4 months old so far and it hasn't vanished much yet.

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Hopefully this forum lets me post some more of these photos now..

The most recent ones. I think these couple are relatively the most realistic to his true color when under the sunlight.





Cake hanging out around my laptop, always.



Eating is always amusing.



He is basically a vibrant blob on my hand.