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In the new Reptiles magazine in the "Ball Game" it said that Lemon x Lemon will give you Blue Eyed Lucys!!!! Is that correct??? Thanks Sean

Yes that is what Vin Russo calls his hets....

Make no confusion The lemons your are refering to are Lemon balls and NOT lemon Patels. BPmachine is correct in that Vin Russo named his Het Blue eyed lucys -- Lemon balls because of the bright yellow that they were. Thanks David

Thanks,I was about to go out and sell my sperm,blood,kidney,and left nut to buy every Lemon Pastel in the country!!! That was a close call!!! Thanks Again Sean

Here is Vin Russo's page on his "High Yellow Lemons" that are het for leucistic.
Vin Russo's Site

Maybe if they had a pic of a Lemon next to a normal, right now it looks like a nice looking normal to me.
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Nita Hamilton
4.9 Normal BP's, 1.0 Het Orange Ghost BP
On the way 1.0 Het Pied 0.4 Normal BP's

"right now it looks like a nice looking normal to me"

That's what gives me some hope that some of the "normals" that get posted on this site might prove to be hets for more stunning homozygous animals. I think I saw Vin's "High Yellow Lemons" on his site before he produced the leucistic and didn't think they where anything. Then again I wasn't even that impressed with the first Mojave pic I saw but maybe I've developed a better eye over time.

Yea, The lemon balls were just bright colored normals until they produced the lucys. I would like someone to post belly pictures of all of the hets/Ball morphs that produce blue eyed Lucys. Also can anyone name all of them? Thanks David

I did see an accidental belly pic of a Mojave from a show once (it was climbing up the glass). As I remember it was all white and nice and broad (like all three belly scales or maybe even more) across without black. It didn't seem to have any striping to the edge of the belly, at least on the front part of the snake that was in the picture. I also briefly saw a fireball belly pic in an ad once and it also was white and wide. Keep in mind these where only partial pics of single animals so hard to make too much generalization but I do get the idea from posts I’ve read that all the hets for white snakes (lesser, mojave, phantom, yellow belly) have bellies with black marks excluded from a wide area.

Here is the best white belly ch 04 I picked up this year just in case it means something.