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I have become very interested in these lately. Can someone please tell me a little about how the silver gene works....is it a simple recessive? I know very little about the suboc's or their morph types so any help would be great. Anyone care to post a picture?
Thank you.

is there any websites that someone can point me to? I just need the basics about these pretty snakes. Thanks in advance.

There are 4 types of "silvers" that I know of. The axanthic blondes which have been proven genetic. They are a double homozygous mutation, both the blonde trait and the axanthic trait being simple recessive. Then there is an, I assume generic silver morph with normal pattern. I don't know much about it other than I've seen babies for sale so I assume it's been proven genetic. And there are 3 wild-caught silver morphs, 1 female silver (she's actually more gray than silver)that was collected as a subadult in the Christmas Mtns. in 1999 by Shawn Devero, 1 female silver(very light almost white-silver) that was collected by myself and Ric Blair as a subadult in 2002 at Black Gap and 1 male silver that was collected as an adult in 2003 also in Black Gap within a mile from Ric and I's by a guy from Kansas. To my knowledge the guy from Kansas hasn't produced any. I have the female from Xmas and the female from Black Gap. They are both paired up with normals that I colleced and I am keeping them locality pure. Next year will be the first year I will possibly produce (unproven) hets. from both. It will be interesting to see if these localities prove out whether they are the same gene.

That was just what I was looking for. Thanks for giving me the histories of each type too. I hope yours will prove out for you when time comes to breed the possible hets. Again, thank you for the great info!

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Are the silver subocs collected in Black Gap blond phase or normal pattern but silver?