What is a het for snow het for? I have a desert king het for snow. Albino and anerythristic? They do not have much red so what difference would it make?
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Snow Kingsnake
marcp
Jul 19, 2012 09:52 PM
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DMong
Jul 19, 2012 10:12 PM
A "snow" Cal. king is an albino (amel) x hypermelanistic (or even melanistic, i.e. all black) since there is no such thing as an anery Cal. king as there is in say the Hondurans or cornsnakes.
~Doug
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DMong
Jul 19, 2012 10:26 PM
I first thought you meant Desert phase Cal. king. After re-reading your post, if you are referring to a snow Desert king (L.g.splendida) as the one's Don Shores produced recently, those are amel x axanthic. As you mentioned, there is no red pigment normally involved(erythrin), only yellow. So when the F-1 hets are bred to each other, a theoretical 25% will be snows displaying neither color.
~Doug
Here is one of Don's snow splendida.....
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DMong
Jul 19, 2012 11:59 PM
Meant to say that two snow double hets will have a 1/16th chance of producing a double homozygous snow. The 25% I mentioned earlier was the odds for hets carrying a single mutation. You will get normals, amels and axanthics from the double het x double het breeding too.
~Doug
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Kerby...
Jul 20, 2012 12:52 AM
Go to bed!
Wake up, have a cup of coffe and clear your head! LOL
Kerby...
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GerardS
Jul 20, 2012 01:14 AM
Lol, I thought a certain German hacked his account and posted that.
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Gerard
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MichaelHeyduk
Jul 20, 2012 03:09 AM
There ain`t many germans around here...
GerardS
Jul 20, 2012 02:48 PM
Not you....and there's a bit more than a few.
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Gerard
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a153fish
Jul 20, 2012 09:13 PM
>>Not you....and there's a bit more than a few.
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>>Gerard
Not many Cubans though! Ha ha!
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GerardS
Jul 20, 2012 09:19 PM
Now that's a sentence I have never said in my life.
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Gerard
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DMong
Jul 20, 2012 11:40 AM
Yeah, I took a look at the forum before going to bed, and I should have just went to bed..LOL!
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