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Those who have bred a snow het ghost and a ghost het snow together: I picked up such a pair this year was just thinking of the likelihood of each type of offspring. With hh = hypo, Hh = het for hypo, ww = whitesided, Mm = het amel and mm amel, represent a ghost het snow as hhwwMm and a snow het ghost as Hhwwmm. 1/4 of the babies would be hhwwmm, and I'm wondering if you can tell any difference between these and snows. It seems like the amel gene would mask the hypo gene and there wouldn't be any difference in appearance, but I wasn't sure. If so, they would be snows "het" ghost, but they are in fact homozygous ghost also. Anybody?
P&S Pituophis

I bred a Ghost (het for Albino) to a Snow (Het Hypo) and got 5 Snow and 8 Ghost . The Ghost have black/blue eyes , the Snow have pink . But I didn't notice or couldn't tell if there was any Hybino Whitesided in the batch , if there is they just look like Snows .

Jason

So you got no whitesides? Odds would be that you'd get 1/4 whitesides, het for both. Also, you'd expect to get 1/4 "hybino whitesides" as you put it. Like I said, I wouldn't think you could tell any difference. The only way to tell would be to breed them to a het hypo and see if you get any normal looking babies(of course, you could just get (un)lucky and not get any anyway, but odds are you would with the snow het ghost. In any case, I can't wait to put mine together in 3 years!!
P&S Pituophis

Hi shaun
I think my Snow must be a Whitesided Hybino because I didn't get any plain old whitsided .

Well have fun breeding Ghost and Snow , there pretty cool snakes
jason