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I just wanted to know how you produce bananna blizzards?
And for that matter how did the original blizzard strain come about?

Thanks I just got a blizzard and I'm in love with the little guy and I want a little more backrogund info on the blizzards trait.

The blizzard trait was either discovered becuase a blizzard specimen was taken from the wild, then hets were made and then they produced blizzard babies, or two hets were found in the wild. I'm not sure which one it is. A banana blizzard is just a high-yellow blizzard. Breed two high-yellow blizzards together, or breed a high-yellow blizzard and a regular colored blizzard and then you should get some more high-yellow(banana) blizzards.
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I beg to differ. A Bananna Blizzard is the visiable result of two recessive traits Patternless(Leucistic)and Blizzard(true leucsitic. A double morph.

Actually PP has proven that their banana blizzards dont carry the patternless gene and are in fact just high-yellow blizzards. You can e-mail them about it. A few people on here have gotten e-mails about it and will back me up on this.
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Prehistoric pets made up the whole morph,
a banana blizzard was promoted BY prehistoric pets when blizzards first came out as a double morph with genes dominant in both patternless and blizzard. When they couldnt guarantee that this was in fact true, everything changed. They assumed that it was a gecko dominant in both cause it looked a little different from a regular blizzard, but this was not the case. Now EVERYONE mislabels banana blizzards.
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in fact I was one of the people who e-mailed Prehistoric Pets about banana blizzards and they replied saying they were in fact just high yellow blizzards. The first banana blizzard was produced by a colony of high yellow blizzards, and assumed they were carrying the patternless gene as well because one of the first things they did when they first discoverd this morph was cross it with a patternless but only normal double hets were produced. They guessed that their colony traced back to when they did this and assumed they had just accidentally produce a blizzardxpatternless "Banana Blizzard". When people started crossing their banana blizzards with patternless and got all normals, Prehistoric Pets had made a mistake. Ever wonder why you don't see patternless het blizzard or blizzard het patternless?
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I got a baby bannana out of a het and a male blizz both born and raised by me and having no genetic bannanas in their breeding that I know of. It never showed up before just this last baby is bright yellow with a white tail. Kinda neat.

that this morph was a combaination of both morphs. I am certain that I did not just make this up out of nowhere.
Anyone else remember this too??
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They printed that before they tested them out.
Lots of people got angry when they bred a banana to a patternless and didn't get a single patternless baby.

And Jay, co-founder of the blizzard morph, told me personally that bananas are just high yellow blizzards a year ago. That was when I was thinking of getting a patternless to go with my blizzard.

they havn't updated their site about this. When that article came about in REPTILES, the banana blizzard was still a young morph, I believe it may of have been produced less then a year before that article came out.

They ASSUMED that it was a cross between a patternless and blizzard because it was incredible yellow and had a white head and tail, although it had been hatched from an all blizzard colony. They thought this because a few years back they had crossed the origional female to a patternless and guessed that their colony of blizzards traced back to that breeding. Until breeders started crossing their banana blizzards to patternless did they realize that they were wrong, and it was not a true blizzardxpatternless gecko, only a high yellow blizzard.

They claim that "midnight blizzards" come about from a double het blizzardxpatternless breeding, which to me sounds untrue. On the other hand, Kelli has produced a gecko that looks to express both genes and I believe she proved to produce both blizzards and patternless. Here is a copy of what Jay, owner of Prehistoric Pets e-mailed my regarding the banana blizzards.

We actually need to update our site. That info has since been disprove by our breeding projects. The dark "midnight" blizzards come from the double het for patternless and blizzard. The bananas come from a regular white colony on about a 1:50 ratio for the really yellow one, like in the pic. We originally thought they were cropping out because we thought our original blizzards were carrying the patternless gene, but we were mistaken. I hope this helps clear up any confusion on what a banana really is.

Thank You,
Jay Brewer Owner, Prehistoric Pets
Business Phone (714) 964-3525
Cell Phone (714)402-4444
http://www.prehistoricpets.com
http://www.jurassicparties.com
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Bradley Baquial

I walked right into Prehistoric Pets and was told personally, by Jay no less that patternless is not involved.
They were wrong.
And it seems that the only thing they update anymore on the site is the animals for sale.

But they did buy the original two hets and the original white leopard from those two and started from there.

I was under the impression the entire time as well "bannana's are just a cross between double hets, patternless X blizzards"... Still have people agreeing with that, but if the proofs there that it isn't then it isn't... Maybe I just ended up with, well for lack of a better word, High Yellow Patternless, theres high yellow everything else so why not..