Albino Tortoises

[Eweezyfosheezy]

Im interested in seeing how many albino species there are that are currently known. The only ones I can think of is red foot, cherry head, sulcata, indian star, egyptian, and hermanns. Does anyone else know of any other type of albino or any other type of unusual tortoise like a hypo leopard or ivory sulcata?

 

[dmmj]

Red ear slider

 

[Eweezyfosheezy]

Ya I want to limit this to just tortoises but yes there are those too lol.

 

[dmmj]

My bad

 

[Eweezyfosheezy]

My bad

No its my bad I should have been more specific.

 

[egyptiandan]

Greek, Marginated, Chaco, Galapagos, Desert

Danny

 

[Eweezyfosheezy]

Greek, Marginated, Chaco, Galapagos, Desert

Danny

NICE!!!!!

Theres so many of them. I had no idea.

 

[Missy]

Are there any pics of the albino Galapagos?

 

[N2TORTS]

Im interested in seeing how many albino species there are that are currently known. The only ones I can think of is red foot, cherry head, sulcata, indian star, egyptian, and hermanns. Does anyone else know of any other type of albino or any other type of unusual tortoise like a hypo leopard or ivory sulcata?

yuppers there are hypo/albino leo's out there ....

 

[EricIvins]

There was either an Albino Forstens or Elongated in Japan a few years ago.......

There were also a few Albino Leopards hatched in Tanzania this year also.......

 

[Eweezyfosheezy]

Yes I have heard of albino elongateds as well and forstens would be very cool as albinos. Does anyone have any pics of the leopard albinos?

 

[Yvonne G]

Go to GOOGLE and click on "images." Then type in albino tortoises. It comes up with many interesting pictures (and some a little ew-w-w)

Of course, Fred Gaal's albino redfoot tortoises are probably among the prettiest I've ever seen:

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/Thread-New-here--921?highlight=albino+redfoot

 

[Eweezyfosheezy]

Yes there is lots of crazy pictures but the albino leopard really intrigues me.

 

[FranklinAndTara]

i read that there is a 1/4 chance for animals to be albino... selective breeding and domestication make it more likley to surface... basically if an animal doesnt have to rely on its coloring to survive in the wild more albinos will surface... it will be wide spread eventually, like mice.

 

[River14]

Personally i think it is very wrong to purposely breed and select albino tortoises or any animal. The few chance natural occurring animals are about enough of this unfortunate genetic mishap. Most of these animals would naturally die in the wild.

FrankAndTara evolution is never that fast it takes a few million years thousands at least. Domestic intentional selection of a mutation is what happened to produce rats and mice with pink eyes by the millions.

 

[-EJ]

Egyptian tortoises.

 

[SnakeyeZ]

My bad

No its my bad I should have been more specific.

How so? Your title says "Albino Tortoises" lol.

I would love to see more pictures of the albinos. I am a big fan of normal coloration on most animals but some albinos look good too.

 

[wrmitchell22]

I wonder if the albinos have any special care requirements?

 

[DeanS]

I wonder if the albinos have any special care requirements?

YES! Albinos do have a higher sensitivity to sunlight than other morphs...regardless of species. Not that they can't be in the sun...it's just that they're going to require a lot more access to shade/hides

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Egyptian tortoises.

Ed...are these yours? Absolutely gorgeous!

 

[dmmj]

I know humans albinos need to avoid sunlight, so can tortoise albinos be in the sun?