ejpower wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Hi Art,
>
> Several shell related questions as applied to the Flying Piglets;
>
> How uncommon are the albino or white specimens?
>
> Can they be artificially "whitened"?
>
> Are they resistant to whitening materials such as clorox, peroxides,
> etc etc, that is will they die when treated?
>
> Most of the terrestrial Piglets that are white have pigmented
> spots/areas on the underbelly and snoot. Would this be true of the
> Flying Piglets? Would the Elk think of these as not quite Gem quality?
>
> Later,
>
> Emilio Jorge Power
 
 
 
 
Friends:
 
 
Albino pigglets are very unussual, but I preffer the tropical species,
like Piglet violacea (grey with fine purple lines), Piglet rhodostoma
(cream with, brown diamonds,  red-wine noose, bluish wings), Piglet
aurea (very nice !, golden points over pink), Piglet rubiventricosa
(fatty and delicateli red stomach, great white wings), and micropiglet
melanacanta (small, black, yellow squares, looks like a exothic bumble
bee, don4t take more !, is under protection).
 
Piglet nivea is the only white species I have in my collection.
 
Regards !
 
Jorge
Mexico City
 
p.d. Smile !