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Just wondering if there is a distinction between a blizzard and a snow blizzard....eye color possibly. I've been told that blizzards have solid black eyes and have also read snow blizzards have solid black eyes and that's how they are different. Anyway, just curious if anyone can shed some light on the situation.
PS my friend just bought a "snow leopard gecko" (as it was labeled) from the pet store and it is obviously not a snow, it looks like a blizzard....however it has black eyes.
Thanks

blizzard is leusistic and snows are a line bred lack of pigments but some types are mendelian. There does seem to be confusion even in the LG community over what a snow is which is why i think many list what line the "snow" is from.

There are three white morphs:
Blizzard (or blazing blizzard, which is an albino blizzard)

Line bred snow
(wich looks like a normal leo only with little to no yellow)
Mack super snow

And then there is the "visible het" form of the super snow, called the
mack snow

Blizzards can go for anything from $40 and higher
Line bred snows are priced based on the least amount of yellow, and top quality ones sell for hundreds of dollers.
Mack super snows sell for between $400-700 right now
And mack snows sell for $100-200.
All morphs are also priced higher depending on the genetics of the parnet geckos, the quality of the triats exibited, and the reputation of the breeder.

The pictures I used came from Alex Hue (Alexhuereptiles.com)
he is a very top notch breeder who offers some of the highest quality geckos ive found.

If your friend bought it at a pet shop it is most likely a blizzard. They can have eyes ranging from the normal grey to a bluish to a solid black. Sometimes they even have snake eyes, meaning the eye is half grey and half solid black.

Hope I helped,
-okapi-
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Leopard geckos:
19 (and 2 eggs)
African Fat Tails:
4

Cool, thanks I understand the major difference, however was not clear on the eye color of blizzards. I've have seen on a breeder's site that they have a "snow x blizzard" and were claiming that this snow blizzard was different from a normal blizzard (even though it just looked like a blizzard) due to it having solid black eyes....anyway. So does anyone know what a "super snow" cross with a "blizzard" would look like (what genes would be expressed)?

PS i mean they're offspring (being het for snow and homo for blizzard) or actually being homo for both....whatever just curious?

A Mack snow bred to a blizzard would produce roughly 50% mack snows het blizzard and 50% normals het blizzard. The mack snows het blizzard bred back to eachother would produce Mack snow blizzards, mack super snow blizzards, blizzards, normals, mack snows, and mack super snows. With the babies not expressing the blizzard gene being 66% chance of being hets for blizzard.
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Leopard geckos:
19 (and 2 eggs)
African Fat Tails:
4

Hey thanks, i understand that part....just wondering if anyone knows the phenotypic expression of snow blizzards. Thanks