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a natural pattern, or are some type of hognose breed to like milks or another red black white pattern. Im asking how do tri color hognose get there colors?

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1.0 Albino Corn "Lucky"
1.0 Snow Corn "Snow"
0.0.4 Southern Ringneck "Collar", "Bc", "Lazy", "Biggie"
1.0 Green Amevia "Gizard"

This is the confusing thing with working with common names and not scientific names. If we worked entirely with scientific names, you would see that tri colors, Lystrophis semicintus, are not the same as "true" hognoses, Heterodon nasicus (for example). True hognoses are of the genus Heterodon, while the common name has been extended to Lystrophis of South America and Leioheterodon of Madagascar, because of superficial traits (like the nose) and other similarities in natural history. I am not sure of their relatedness, so someone should post on that, but I can assure you that they are still distantly related.

Therefore, no special breeding has been done to a true hognose to get the special colors, tri colors are that way because they are their own species!
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Thanks you for your information
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1.0 Albino Corn "Lucky"
1.0 Snow Corn "Snow"
0.0.4 Southern Ringneck "Collar", "Bc", "Lazy", "Biggie"
1.0 Green Amevia "Gizard"

that was a good post, may I use that info on my new website I am making? thanks.

www.westernhognose.com check it out!

JIM

Sure, I think as much information as possible needs to be available on these mysterious little bastards! Just provide the proper credit and keep us up to date on the developments of your new web site!

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