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Snow or Blizzard?

So they are homo for both anery & lavender? This is the part that really confuses me about genetics. I read somewhere that you can't produce a snake that is homo anery A & Charcoal, both forms of anery. They can only be homo for one & het for the other? I'd assumed that applied to lavender as well. Think I'm going to have to break down & get a good herp or snake genetics book. Any recommendations? I've got a few snake keeping books that talk a bit about it & some web sites, this one included that are good, but then I forget parts of what they said & can't remember where I read it to go refresh my memory. Thanks again for all the help! ;~)
 
Anery and charcoal are completely different genes. If you breed them together, you get normals het for anery and charcoal. You breed those together, you can get normals, aneries, charcoals... and anery charcoals.

The only genes right now that share the same genetic location are motley and stripe. Everything else has different locations which is why you can anery lavenders, ghost bloods, and the wonderful Powder, the quad homo snake who is amel, anery, charcoal, and hypo all at the same time.
 
Shiari said:
Anery and charcoal are completely different genes. If you breed them together, you get normals het for anery and charcoal. You breed those together, you can get normals, aneries, charcoals... and anery charcoals.

The only genes right now that share the same genetic location are motley and stripe. Everything else has different locations which is why you can anery lavenders, ghost bloods, and the wonderful Powder, the quad homo snake who is amel, anery, charcoal, and hypo all at the same time.
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The hard part is, of course, telling them apart.
 
I was thinking of getting "Genetics for Herpers" a book that is offered on the VMS website. Does anyone know if it is a good book? Or know of any other good books on reptile genetics? Thanks
 
"Genetics for Herpers" is a winner. The author is highly respected in the herp world. You'd also benefit from picking up the annual "Corn Snake Morph Guide." It's by Charles (Serpwidgets) Pritzel also, so you can probably get it at the same website. I know Kathy Love offers both at her site, www.cornutopia.com. Her shipping is uber-reasonable for books, too.
 
the last 2 i can see way more banding so that is the snow, the blizzards can and do show some yellowing with age and size but the white is more crisp than in a snow so the first 2 are blizzards.
 
Genetics are so fun... :D

I do agree, the first one looks to be the blizzard, whereas the second one looks like the snow. :) They're very pretty snakes, I hope you have fun with them! :)
 
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