I'm having trouble seeing the differences between snows and moonglows. I'm sure in real life it is apparent but from pictures it is hard to differentiate. Could someone enlighten me or send a pic of the two side by side?
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Moonglow question
cougar1
Jan 25, 2007 11:15 PM
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rainbowsrus
Jan 25, 2007 11:27 PM
except with moonglow you also have anery added in to the mix. Probably most clear difference is the ring around the tail blotches. A snow will have translucent rings around the tail blothces, In a moonglow, those rings are minimal or non-existant.
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TattooVT
Jan 25, 2007 11:45 PM
The way I have been able to tell the difference is in the saddles. Since the Moonglows also have the Hypo gene they tend to have the very thin hypo saddles too. I could be wrong on this, but from the babies I have seen that is the fastest way I could tell.
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Slithering_Serpents
Jan 26, 2007 02:36 PM
Saddles in snows sometimes are shaped like a hypo, with that bowtie or hourglass shape too. You really can't tell by the saddle shape alone. I know a guy who recently bought a pair of snows with those hypo kind of saddles from John Skipper.
Caden
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bcijoe
Jan 26, 2007 01:21 PM
like an albino to a sunglow
like a normal to a hypo
the actual pattern of the saddles and stuff are thinner/less
the actual faint space surrounding the saddles are larger/wider
forget the color on the boas, the pattern is different... if you can see it in an xray or reverse colored photo it would be alot more obvious I think.
hopefully we'll see alot more of these soon and it will be more visible to us.
take care, Joe
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