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any info on leucistic gopher snakes? I have found one labled such and am considering it but have not heard of this morph of gopher snake before, but then again I am a corn snake person so I am not up to date on all the different pit morphs.

The person I am getting it from seems to be honest in that he did tell me that a certain anery corn I wanted may have emoryi blood in it from a few generations back.
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Man it's hard to get good pics of a leucistic snake!! How do you guys do it? Black background maybe....


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Ask the seller for the lineage/source information. And how old/large is the snake?

As far as I know there is no leucitic gophers in existence. Also that picture(to me at least) more closely resembles the head/body structure of some rat snakes then that of most of the gophers I've kept( I've only kept pacific gophers). This makes me suspect it may be the result of gopher x leucitic ratsnake.

Another more legitimate(though still shady) possibility is that he may be passing a blizzard sonoran off as a leucitic. Most all of the baby blizzard sonoran gopher pic's I've seen are patternless pink snakes like the one in the pic you posted.

It would be really exciting if there was a genuine leucitic gophersnake but I'm highly skeptical until given more information.

Sean.

Its not a Leucistic because it has pink eyes. Leucistic have normal colored eyes.

Jason

I guess it could be an albino leucistic but I would highly doubt that since the first response had never even heard of leucistic gophers!!
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Wiki

The one exception, I believe, to the leucitic normal eyes is I have seen listings with pictures for amel leucitic ratsnakes which the only apearance difference is the eyes are pink.

However as I said before I don't think it is a leucitic "gopher" amel or not. But I am not sure about what it actually is.

Jason, since your very familliar with the blizzard sonorans, does the pick look like it may be a bliz sonoran to you? Whats your opinion on what it might be?

Sean.

I went to Nokturneltom's website and saw his blizzard sonorans. That looks like mine right down to the faint stripe down the back.
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Like a hybrid. The scales on his head are funny looking.

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TomsSnakes.com

albino "pine snake" for sale yesterday in the classifieds.ROTFLMAO.
You just never know.
Shannon

LOL! I almost laughed myself into puking Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

thanks all. Think I may just purchase it now. I saw Toms pics on his site and I guess $225 it not so bad.
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