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When you have a normal het amel and anery, do you call it normal het snow?

I've mainly seen in the ball python trade, and only a few times with cornsnakes.
 
Lyion said:
I've mainly seen in the ball python trade, and only a few times with cornsnakes.
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With things being called het snow? Just as a point of reference the snow in ball pythons is a bit different.

I could get into a long, long winded explanation of why, but it's not worth it. Gene combos, line breeding, yada yada...so on and so forth.
 
Lyion said:
I have a question. Does that ever cause confusion? I've seen some people use parenthasis like this:

Normal het anery, amel (albino)
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Well, yes, that is VERY confusing actually. The term "albino" is technically an animal that is missing ALL pigment, which of course is the combination of anery and amel, but snakes are usually much different that many other animals since they can often have other colors involved as well, so the term "amelanistic" (complete lack of melanin) or "amel" for short is precisely what they are.

Your above example would be far better stated, and less confusing as: Normal, het anery/amel (snow) :)


~Doug
 
BloodyBaroness said:
With things being called het snow? Just as a point of reference the snow in ball pythons is a bit different.

I could get into a long, long winded explanation of why, but it's not worth it. Gene combos, line breeding, yada yada...so on and so forth.
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Yeah, the ball python stuff can be very different alright, such as what they refer to as a "ghost" is not the standard hypo x anery, (or axanthic) as in most colubrids, but are simply hypos that got the coined name "ghost" from the ghostly faded look of the single hypo gene alone. :shrugs:

As you know, it's hard to reverse history once people are used to having something a certain way for a while..LOL!


~Doug
 
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