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Grr genetics are simple...or so ive been told repeatedly... LOL i disagree. I have 4 female macks, I origanally was going to put them with my blazing blizzard male...but that just gives me a bunch of hets...I guess i need a mack snow male to produce mack snow babies?

i think macks are recessive..so yes you'd need a male mack or a het....the only way would be a dominant or co-dominant gene (i dont know much about leo morphs but genetics in general are like this....)actually maybe this will help....its about ball pythons but the genetics are similar and it describes dom,co-dom, and recessive combos with hets and homozygous and normal....it helped me a lot when i was learning about the genetics in bp's so i assume its the same...all you have to do is find out if macks are recessive or dominant or co-dominant.
http://www.ballpython.ca/genetics.html

Mack Snows are a Co-dominant trait. So you should get from your breeding project is 50% Mack Snow & 50% Normal. All offspring will be double het for Blizzard & what ever Albino line the Blazzing Blizzard happens to be.
If you got yourself another Mack Snow and bred him to your other Mack Snows you would get 50% Mack Snow, 25% Normal, and 25% Super Mack Snow.