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This yearling male snow Honduran is pure white. I am wondering why. Is it a triple homozygous, meaning is it a snow that is also hypo? That would also make it a hybino that is also anery.

I received it a year ago from Terry Dunham. It's one of the prettiest snakes in my collection. It is difficult to appreciate him from a photo. In life, he is just beautiful.

Terry, this came from your collection. Any chance of the above?

If not, could this be a distinct morph of snow? Like a blizzard snow?

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Hi Robert,

I'm glad it's turned out so well. Email me the info on the parents and i can tell you whether there's any chance of its being a triple homozygous.

It's also possible (and probably more likely) it's just another color phase of the snow. Consider: I have an adult that's pink, white and yellow. I have an adult that's only yellow and white (no pink). I have an adult that's only pink and white (no yellow). All it would take for a snow to be snow white (no pun intended) would be that it have both the trait of not having yellow, and the trait of not having pink--both of which we've seen separately on individual snakes, no reason to think they couldn't both happen on the same animal.

So either's possible.

terry
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>>This yearling male snow Honduran is pure white. I am wondering why. Is it a triple homozygous, meaning is it a snow that is also hypo? That would also make it a hybino that is also anery.
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>>I received it a year ago from Terry Dunham. It's one of the prettiest snakes in my collection. It is difficult to appreciate him from a photo. In life, he is just beautiful.
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>>Terry, this came from your collection. Any chance of the above?
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>>If not, could this be a distinct morph of snow? Like a blizzard snow?
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Parents: 045 snow x 019 dh

>>Parents: 045 snow x 019 dh

045 is my three-color snow male--pink, white and yellow. 109 is a double het female, big proven female, i guess the interesting thing about her is that black tipping has almost filled in the narrow white rings, converting her to a classic sort-of near-bicolor.

I guess in the same way albino melanistic cal kings produce all-white animals (do i have that right?) then maybe the fact that the mom's tipping obscures the white rings maybe your snow's rings are somehow obscured in the same way? Doesn't really make sense to me though.

My current working hypothesis would be that some snows show pink; others show yellow; others show both colors, all along with white. By that same token, some DON'T show pink, some DON'T show yellow, so without knowing WHY those colors don't show, there are simply some snakes which exhibit both characteristics so they don't show either pink or yellow--therefore, they're white. I can't explain the mechanics of it, just that it makes sense based on what we've seen on other snows.

terry