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you crossed a leucistic rat snake & an amelanistic corn who is het for snow?
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2.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken, Jack Skellington & Abby
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
1.3 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1 Pacman frog Buffy the Cricket Slayer
1.1.5 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John, Helmut Newton & Thandie Newton
1.1 cats Gus & Mena

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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

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2.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken, Jack Skellington & Abby
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
1.3 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1 Pacman frog Buffy the Cricket Slayer
1.1.5 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John, Helmut Newton & Thandie Newton
1.1 cats Gus & Mena

In appearance, the babies would almost certainly look like babies from a normal Texas rat mated to a normal corn snake. I've seen the results of that cross and was not impressed.

The leucistic, amelanistic, and anerythristic mutant genes have different locations in the rat snake genome. All three are recessive to the respective normal versions of the three genes. The only ways to get something other than what I predicted above would be to have a dominant mutant gene in the genetic mix or to pair up two recessive mutant genes at the same location in the genome. This cross does not hack it either way.

Paul Hollander