last night I saw the female sibling to the cream snow Iowa snow plains squirming around and pacing around the tub before I went to bed and sure enough there were little surprises this morning. I saw one baby in the tub so I opened it up and expected to see a small litter like her sisters, but was surprised when I lifted her hide up to find 18 little heads looking at me. There were 6 stillborns and 2 jelly beans too, unfortunately. They are all really big fat babies though. Surprisingly there was one born that is crem colored with yellow eyes again,not in the picture, pictures later as it was having difficulty shedding and is on a wet paper towel. I have a new theory now that maybe the cream colored ones are both Iowa snow and Nebraska snow and the same time and the combo causes some difficulty oxygenating blood at birth, I will need to do some outcrossing breeding in the next couple years to prove or disprove this theory, but by the number produced and the ratio produced could fit the model of being homogygous for the 3 genes: Iowa albino, Nebraska albino, and anerythristic.



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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

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