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Since I've read the post by Dave B where he bred a snow to an Axanthic WS and got Axanthic and normal hatchlings my mind has been in over drive.

From the information provided my theory is snow is Homozygous for black and white axanthic and het Lemke axanthic... and the ghost is Homozygous for Lemke... if they were both Homozygous for Lemke strain you'd get all axanthics but since there are hets the adults have to be differ net strains. ok enough with stating the obvious...

here's what I've been thinking about, the axanthic mutation has been around for a while, they've been crossed into each other, probably with out knowledge of it and we may have 2x Homozygous axanthics out there. if we do have 2x Homozygous axanthics out there when bred to the simple axanthic mutation we get 100% axanthics het for the other strain...

NOW how do we identify!?

see the reason I have a problem with this whole 2 different strains that are compatible is this, I have a quad of snakes (1.3 I got from Rainer W.) they are Sulphur lavender (het Lemke axanthic) X BHB Axanthic (black and white axanthic) het lavender.

offspring were Lavender, axanthic, snow and normal 2x hets if those 2 strains are not compatible why did he get axanthics and snows???

like it's been said on this forum over and over there's more to mutations than we explain in their definitions.

Thanx for "listening" to me rant...

~ZF

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Since the lavender trait originated from Tim Ricks and he bred both the Lemke and BHB (black and white) line into them to get the Pearl snows and regular snows, it hard to say what floating around out there. It makes sence the Lavender I used to breed the sulfurs had the B&W strain. I did not know it at the time because I thought the anery from BHB was the same allele as the Lemke. Then when I bred the sulfur lav into the BHB anery I got anerys,lav's and snows (coined them anery to differentiate the BHB line from the Lemke/NE line. QLSO at the time I did not know that the BHB line was also allelic with the lavender trait. So it was a surprise. Anyway, thats what you have. 1/4 sulfur and 3/4 lav..

see the reason I have a problem with this whole 2 different strains that are compatible is this, I have a quad of snakes (1.3 I got from Rainer W.) they are Sulphur lavender (het Lemke axanthic) X BHB Axanthic (black and white axanthic) het lavender.

offspring were Lavender, axanthic, snow and normal 2x hets if those 2 strains are not compatible why did he get axanthics and snows???

Yes it is possible that the anery BHB line is a homozygous for both anery and axanthic. Also its possible the Tim Ricks lav is het for both strains as well. We just don't know what some breeders experimented with , say, 7-10 years ago(?)

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