Looking for a pair that are not bug-eyed.
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Blue Eyed Leucistic Texas Rat Snake
Cobra7
Jul 06, 2011 06:37 PM
Replies (4)
allensheehan
Jul 06, 2011 10:32 PM
These can be found if you are patient and ask for good pics. I have good luck breeding my leucistic male to het females. I obviously end up with lots of het offspring that can be harder to move but my leucistics all have nice eyes.
DMong
Jul 07, 2011 11:11 PM
Yeah, I never cared for the "Mart Feldman" trait in the leucistics either...LOL!
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing" 
Cobra7
Jul 08, 2011 08:34 PM
Can you breed leucistic X leucistic without getting bug eyes?
DMong
Jul 08, 2011 10:38 PM
Yes, you certainly can breed Leucy x leucy and get no "bug-eyed" offspring, but doing so can often make the offspring more prone for the undesireable tandem trait to pop up from all the inbreeding. To minimize this, new blood from unrelated T-rats should be introduced to the leucistics. Then this will produce heterozygous carriers for the leucistic trait. then when these are back-bred to the leucistic parent, or to each other, the likelihood of perpetuating the buge-eyed trait is GREATLY reduced, if not totally non-existent.
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"
