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im getting a new corn and ive narrowed it down to blizzard or snow. i know there similar but there is a fourty dollar difference.

do some blizzards look like snows and vise versa?

thanks, jake
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my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)

Blizzard (in most cases) are completely white, almost leucistic. Most have very little (almost none) visible pattern. Snows have a very obvious visible pattern and most form visible streaks of yellow around their necks. But both are beautifull snakes. But this does bring up a question to mind....If you had a completely white blizzard, what would keep it from being labeled leucistic?
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Road Hog"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches" (Didn't name her!)

good question, look what you did! you made me think, why would you do that?

so there is a big difference between the two right? because i dont want to spend the extra for a pale snow.
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my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)

i think lucy has black eyes, blizz has pink
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)

Phenotypically (physical appearance):
Snows tend to have much more distinct patterns. Where a blizzard at most will have faint yellow outlines where their saddles would be, a snow will have obvious saddles. Snows range from pink and white to white and yellow to pink and light lime green. Blizzards range from white with light yellow outlines to completely white. Both blizzards and snows can have yellow on the necks, although it's MUCH more common in snows than blizzards.

Genotypically:

Snow = Amelanistic and Anery A
Blizzard = Amelanistic and Charcoal

So, which to get is based on a) what you want it to look like as an adult, and b) what you want to breed it to if you plan on breeding it.

-Kat
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"You keep WHAT in your freezer?"
"Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

i plan on breedin it to my amel, and ive heard i will get more blizzards
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)

ill get a blizzard because i love snakes with only one color. what would happen if i bred a blizzard to a snow?
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)

A blizzard x snow will produce: amel het charcoal het anery.

Neither a blizzard or a snow should have black eyes as both morphs are made up of amel and something else (charcoal and anery). Amel is amelanistic, or lacking black. As far as I know there are no lucistic corns that aren't hybrids. An amel x blizzard will produce: amel het charcoal and amel x snow will produce amel het anery. It all depends in what you want to do down the line.

~Katie
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10.18 Corns (too many to name) plus babies
0.2 Columbian Red Tail Boa (Princess and Baby)
0.3 Leopard Geckos (Cutie, Lily, and Miss Piggy)
0.1.1 Pac Man Frogs (Gordito and Spud)
0.1 Suriname Toad (Squishette)
0.0.1 Red Eared Slider (Tiny)
0.1 Sulcatta Tortoise (Shelly)
2.3 Ball Pythons (Fluffy, Fred, Wilma, Betty, Aurora)

im not a serios breeder so i care more about what the snake will be like as a pet than what the babies look like
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)

Either a Snizzard, or a Blow... Just kidding. Amels I think!
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Road Hog"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches" (Didn't name her!)

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1.0 Hypo Okeetee - Wesley (Princess Bride)
0.1 Ghost - Sydney (Scream)
2.0 Striped Amel - Jay and Aiden (Kevin Smith movies)
1.0 Snow - Silent Bob (Kevin Smith movies) R.I.P. 5-30-05
0.1 Anery - Columbia (Rocky Horror)
1.0 Creamcicle - Brandon (Mallrats)
0.1 Zig Zag Anery - Pepper (didn't name her)
0.1 Normal - Bindy (Croc. Hunter)
0.1 Motley - Craven (Underworld)

Leucistics are completely patternless and cannot be "made" like snow corns (just like an albino cannot be "made," people found them in the wild and bred them).

Blizzards and snows are albinos bred to two different types of anerys. One type has less pattern when made in to a snow (hence the name "blizzard".

If you plan on breeding snakes, blizzards are worth more than snows - this might help with your decision.

Tim

Third Eye

actually thats 2wo pancakes, SHARE!
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)