Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Hi,
My Fiance bought a Patternless S. Snow Pine female at the Chicago show 2 yrs ago. She is now of breeding size and age. I am friends with the guys from PSPitouphis.com and they have a NICE kinda gunmetal gray patternless southern male. I do not know the genetics behind him though. That is the snkae that i will pair up with ours next year. What should i expect for the outcome? I am familiar with the hondo genetics and morphs but not to great with the pits. Thanks for the help. Is anyone else working with the patternless snows?

Cody

It really all depends on the genetics of what you are wanting to breed it with. Without knowing that you can't tell. At the very least you would get patternless. Take care!

Jeremy

The babies would be patternless het snow correct? In pits is a snow a homo anery/albino?
thanks
cody

From the information I've seen, patternless is caused by a dominant mutant gene. Depending on the actual genes present in the parents, they could produce all patternless babies or both patternless and normally blotched babies.

As far as I know, nobody knows for sure whether snow is caused by one mutant gene or two independent mutant genes. Or how the inheritance works. There was a thread on it and patternless in this forum late last year or early this year, but I couldn't find it in a quick search of the archives. Nokturnal Tom was one of the main posters, if that helps.

Paul Hollander