Albino ball pythons are amelanistic which means their skin does not contain dark pigments. Their skin cells can only synthesize yellow and red pigments. Few, if any, ball pythons have red pigments, so albino ball pythons are yellow and white. The albino mutation is inherited as a simple recessive trait.

Albino ball pythons are among the prettiest of all pythons. The nice contrast of bright yellow against stark white is stunning. There is nothing like seeing a baby albino poking its head out of its egg!

If you are into ball pythons, this is the mutation that you need. Albinos are one of the base colors needed when making new morphs. Albinos can be crossed with axanthics (animals lacking yellow) to eventually produce an animal that is nearly all white with pink eyes – the “snowball”. Albinos can be crossed with striped animals to eventually produce striped albinos. Albinos can also be bred to hypomelanistics, piebalds, granites, and the list goes on and on...