He in fact DID produce VISIBLE hets. He considered them a form of natural hypo. He, at the time didn't realize that the visible het was a co dom trait. I may be able to contact Darin and have him forward me a pic of the ORIGINAL WC leucistic black ratsnake from Ohio. You guys are all saying that Don and Mike have "good" strains of leucistic, but what you don't realize is that they got them from someone else. Darin's name isn't well known since he keeps to himself a lot, but he is very reputable and honest.



And furthermore, there is actually more to the original than most know. It was ORIGINALLY bred to an amel black ratsnake since "leucistic" wasn't so well known. The results produced NO "albinos" which was was was thought to happen at the time. That guy who did this thought that the "white" wasn't genetic since no albinos came out of the cross. This is where Darin came in. He acquired the animal and some of the F1s from the amel cross. Darin knew that they had to be crossed back again to produce the desired trait.



Hope this helps out some as well.



Dewey

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