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Bluerosy
at Tue Jul 24 14:28:01 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]
Marie,
Post a picture of your snake here after 3 sheds. I am willing to bet the color on it will yellow quite a bit after a few sheds and about 15 pinkies. Its to early to call it anything like a crme or bone. Those names are not even used. Anything less than pure white is not a high white and a bannana. I have had sevral light yellow (bone, offwhite, creme) and they are not conidered high whites. A high white is around $200-$300. and anything less is between $50-$100. snake.
Not trying to down your snake by any means. Just that so many people have jumped to the conlusion it is a high white. Osborne calls High Whites SNOWS but what he means they they are the same thing as a high white.
In actuality a snow is a double het homozygot animal showing two reccessive traits at once (axanthic/anerythristic X amelanistic). Thats the way it is with colubrid gentics and terms get slung around all the time. For instance the "Ghost" Cali king. It is not a double het homozygot (axanthic/anery x hypo) but its own reccessive trait that was not a result of breeders efforts to combine two reccessive traits at once.
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RE: Thank you Kerby and Bluerosy.... - Bluerosy, Tue Jul 24 14:28:01 2007