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They are absolutely gorgeous as adults!

I think my drool just shorted out my keyboard. Thank you soooo much for sharing these pics!!!

Hey, is that a nesting box already?

That is a nesting box but she's not gravid or even been introduced. I usually like them to get accustomed to having one in there for shedding purposes (not humid enough where I am) plus they will soil them frequently if I just put them in for a short period. I'm using her this year to produce some snow het hypos.

mgl

but if you breed the snow het-hypo offspring, how would you know if any of the offspring are hypo (ie. triple homo)?
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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps

You wouldn't visually know. I probably wouldn't breed those 2 together. If you did, you may have triples and maybe they would be lighter visual look or something like the supposed hybinos. It is too early to determine that. I most likely will breed the snow het hypos to a hypo or ghost to potentially make hypos DH snow or ghosts het albino...so a small step in between (if I did my genetics correctly)

They really do look nice as adults....
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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps

each shed.

np

that most snows seem to have tricolor traits? The ones that I've seen pictures of seem to show the yellow and hint of red like a tricolor. Or are there examples of tangerines as well? Just curious...
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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps

be better suited to answer that. I think he is the only one I've seen with distinctly 3 different color phases (not saying anybody doesn't have them). I believe they are the classic tricolor one, the yellow/white one, and the greenish one.

Interestingly, my snow came out of a clutch containing 2 tricolors albinos, 3 intermediates, 1 tangerine albino and herself. I double clutched that adult pair (tangerine albino het anery and peach looking albino het anery) and they threw 5 eggs w/ 3 more snows. I know the 2 of the 3 people that have them but haven't seen any updated pictures (I think one was somewhat aberrant so that would be neat to see the yellow aberrancy)...it would be interesting to see if they look similar to mine (also the 2 in that second clutch that weren't snows were very yellow tricolor albinos)

The snow het hypo I have from last year looks differently than the snow pictured when she was at that age...should be interesting!!!

Adam of Selective Origins suprised me with his 'tangerine' snow in person... before then I didn't know such a thing existed (I hope he doesn't mind me posting the link) ... When I saw it I was absolutely amazed at how much nicer it looked next to a normal tricolor snow. One if these with great yellow bands would be a phenomanal show! Has anybody else ever seen one like this?

Nothing against the tricolors everybody they do look great too... Matt I am very happy with mine, thanks again! (I'm still waiting on a camera to post some pics) - These do have close to the brightest yellow I have ever seen besides a pic in Terry's collection.
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Forgive me for asking, maybe Adam could answer this better, how can you tell a tangerine snow from a tri-color? The yellow is from the black-banding and tipping, it's underneath the black if you will, and animals with more tipping wider black banding have more yellow, correct?
Any replies appriciated!

Its just the middle band matching the normally wider band in color perfectly ... I'm not sure how the yellow will come in on it over time but I would imagine that if the colours match well then the middle band will not get the yellow tipping. I'm ort of guessing here but I have only seen one snow that was like this. Usually when they are young its easier to see their different 'colors'. I will ask him how its coming along and post back, I haven't seen him on these boards in a while.

Alright thanks Jawn. I think if you could tell the difference in them you would be able to in Anerys also?

I know what you mean and I haven't quite seen that in any pics but I'm sure its possible. This link seems to be close .. but its hard to tell with all the tipping. At first glance the colors match perfectly. Who knows that could be a new morhp also?
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Not sure I understand you. But there is a lot of History on that website.

I didn't know that adult snows could hold their pink colour this long? To me that is amazing. Contrasts very nicely with the yellow .. pretty much a bicolor! You captured its beauty well in this pic Matt.

I do see the tangerine look in all hatchlings but as they mature I always see them turn pinker and the yellow merge. Only those few exceptions. How old was that snow of Adams? It would be interesting to see what it turned into. Hope your snows are doing well. Glad to hear from you, hope that anery male isn't giving you any more problems.

mgl

That has to be the best pic of an adult Snow I have ever seen, awesome snake. Thanks for posting. Tom Stevens

Those are some great pics of one stunning looking animal.
Nathan

They are gorgeous animals and are right up there with extremes for looks.

Appreciate the comments
mgl

I tell ya Nathan, I understand the whole supply and demand and what people are willing to pay lectures typical of any post with explanations of a "crash". However this particular picture is flawless and shows people what the big deal is. I think many people visualize a blizzard cal king type of look, and these snows are so much more. What happened last year...well I honsetly do not think it had to happen to such an extreme but pictures like this one are inspiring, seriously influential on people taking in an interest in Hondurans. I have some unique projects in the works outside of the Hondos and I will surely attempt to promote them with a lot of pictures, and I can only hope some turn out as killer as this pic. Tom Stevens
ps you're in Houston aint ya?