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ok I know the blizzard is a solid white albino but for some reason when I brred my blizzard cal king male to a brown and yellow banded het the babies some come out blizzard and then some come out solid black(with black eyes)with a faint brown stripe or pattern?This has happened 2 years in a row.Is this another mutation of that gen?The black babies are really cool looking.I kept a few of the black females for breeding in a couple years to see what they drop out.

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TAMPA HERP RESEARCH

thats very cool probably some l.g.nitida(baja cali)influence coming through from generations back very cool love to see them as adults good luck w/them and being het for blizzard is just all the better getula rule!,,,,,,thomas

Blizzards are a result of breeding a melanistic (Baja, Davis, Mendota, etc...) with an albino, getting double hets (melanistic & albinism). Breeding these back to each other will produce albinos, melanistics, normals (possible het (s), etc..) and 1/16 will be displaying both traits at the same time (Blizzard). Breeding a Blizzard to any cal king that is het for albinism & melanistic will give you some of each, plus more hets and normals.

Just compare it with a Snow Corn (displaying two recessive genes at the same time: amel & anery).

Breeding two normal looking corns that are double hets will produce 4 different kinds of corns from the same clutch (amels, anerys, snows & normals & possible hets amel & anery, etc..)

So breeding two normal looking cal kings that are double hets will produce 4 different kinds of cal kings from the same clutch (amels, melanistics, blizzards, and normals & possible hets amel & melanistics, etc..)

More to come as we breed other double hets:

Since amel & melanistic produce blizzards, what will lavender & melanistcs look like?

amel & lavender?
ghost & amel?
ghost & lavender?
ghost & melanistic?
ghost & blizzard (amel & melanistic)?
lavender & melanistic? A new color of blizzard?

and on-and-on......

Kerby...

thanks K
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TAMPA HERP RESEARCH