Albino, snow corns....?

[sapphire21]

I'm new to this forum and I just got an albino baby corn... are snow corns and albinos the same thing? Also, the temp in her cage is about 75-80 on the warm side and 65-70 on the cool side and I fed her a f/t pinkie yesterday and I've only seen her on the cool side. Is this ok for her? I have hide spots on both sides so I was thinking she just likes the cool side for digestion, but I wanted to make sure.

[hunter]

75-80 on the hot side seems a little cold i would put it up to 85-90, 65-70 is pretty cold, not extreme but the say keep temps from 75-85-90 from cold to hot side im sure 70 degrees on the cools side would be fine as long as there is a much hotter alternative, im new to corns as well and this is advice i was given, and i think if you checked out a few websites these are the temps they recomend, and yes as far as i know snows are a type of albino corn along with a few other morphs, any corn with red eyes is albino, which are mostly snows and amels, i think someone could probably better explain that part.

[hunter]

ps they need the hotter temps for digestion as well to avoid regurges...they stink!lol

[Simon]

The term albino means lacking of a particular pigment.
This is what I got from the Merriam Webster's web site:
"an organism exhibiting deficient pigmentation; especially : a human being or nonhuman mammal that is congenitally deficient in pigment and usually has a milky or translucent skin, white or colorless hair, and eyes with pink or blue iris and deep-red pupil "

So basically you can call all corn snake morphs as albinos. Since Amels are lack of black, Anery are lack of red/marrron pigment and so on.
But with corns we usually referr albinos as amels.

Snow are also considered as albinos
The thing with snow is that they are actually 'double albino' since it has the amel and anery gene in it. That is why its 'white' since its lacking the red and black pigment on the snake.

As for the temp, hunter is right. Try and boost the temp up a bit higher.

I have a little care sheet on my site:

http://www.extremesnakes.com/caresheet.html

Hope this helped~
Good luck and happy herping!!
Oh and welcome to the forum!