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What makes a snake leucistic? and what is the difference between leucistic and albino? and would it work if i cross bred my okatee corn snake with a leucistic texas rat snake?

thanks
Logan

you would get a mutt...something that resembles a normal corn this is het leucistic...something that I hope you would never do, because you would be dirtying corn blood...and nothing good would come out of such a crossing. if you want the white look in your corn, get a blizzard...

luecistic is an animal lacking color pigments (hence the blueish eyes)...their are pink eyed luecistics...which another way of saying it would be that luecistic is patternless and pink eye leucistic is albino patternless.

Well, i only got the idea, because, i know that some corn snakes are bred with some rat snakes to get different breeds of corns, i just thought something interesting might come out if i did try. But if nothing cool will happen i suppose i wont try.

Logan

Well... if you bred a leucy rat to a corn and then bred the siblings together, you'd get 1/2 corn 1/2 rats that were leucistic... the problem with that is that they'd look almost identical to leucistic rats so there really wouldn't be a point, for all the trouble you'd have to go to.
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