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Hi,

I'm trying to reconcile honduran & rat snake jargon. (in hondurensis, albino & anery = snow; hypo & anery = ghost; do they mean the same in rat snakes?)

If a guy advertises "pair of snow corns... male is het 4 ghost .1 is het for blizzard" does that mean the terms are used differently in elaphe & lampropeltis? If the male is snow, if that means he IS albino and IS ANERY, then he's het for hypo, not for ghost, right? and what's blizzard? thanks.

trying to keep pace...

peace
terry
albino tricolors

You're right about the homozygous anery amel advertised as het ghost likely being het for hypo, since hypo anery = ghost in cornland too

Blizzard is amelanism combined with type b anerythrism (the more common type A makes a snow)
Type a and type b anerythrism are different loci but look pretty similar - snows are just more visibly patterned than blizzards, and type a's are generally more yellow or brown than type b's.

Ask the person in question though, if you're unsure as to their reasoning for all the hets. Some people don't understand genetics very well, so if you think you know more than the seller it might help clarify for you what you're buying, and corns can be a little nutty with all the colour traits we breed for

Alex

And to keep and breed corns still doesnt guarantee someone knows what they are selling.

Case in point: Ive corresponded with a breeder about charcoal motleys. When I asked her specifically if her motleys and stripes were anery A or B (charcoal) she tells me she is not sure as they were not sold to her as anery A or anery B.

But her 'charcoal' motleys come from breding a ghost motley to a snow motley.

They aren't charcoals, needless to say.