Baby blizzard *pic*

[Katt]

Here's my little baby blizzard I got from Mark (aka crimsonking). Isn't Mark so nice?! Also is my blizzard now the cutest? <laugh> So finally I have 1.1 blizzards!!

I think that blizzards are smaller than average corns. Silica my girl is only about 38", perhaps a bit bigger at three years and you can see the baby male is also a small corn.

<img src="http://members.shaw.ca/kattia/babybliz.jpg">

[Tim_Cranwill]

Wow, a very reduced pattern.

[Katt]

Blizzards are a combo of anery B (charcoal) and amel, when they grow up, they lose almost all their pattern and turn white as adults.

[Simon]

very nice blizzard I am not too into the blizzards but then that one looks really nice!!!!

[eyespy]

Little cutie doesn't show much pattern now, should be nice and clean and bright as an adult!!

Very nice little dude. Do you have a picture of Silica handy so we can see her too?

[SKULL]

nice and almost patternless!!

[Katt]

Here's a pic of my girl

<img src="http://members.shaw.ca/kattia/silica13.jpg">

[Katt]

Silica is coming into her third year and is only now, losing her pattern, and turning opaque white, as opposed to pink white like the baby bliz. Also, a tiny bit of yellow if present near her throat and a bit on her belly. She is nearly patternless on her belly. She as my first corn and my favouite. She's a little hard to understand though, she keeps herself distanct, but a good snake. I take her to shows and let kids handle her.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Holy crap!! That looks leucistic!! Such a cool-looking snake. Genetics rules.

[josefg]

Nice snakes Katt!

What's the difference between leucistic and blizzard?

[Big Mike]

That's a cool looking corn.

[reverendsterlin]

a leucistic will have blue eyes a blizzard or albino will have red eyes

[Lisa]

what about snow?

[Katt]

Thanks guys!

To answer your q's.

Snows are anery A + amel (yellow throat)
Blizzards are anery B + amel (tends to not have yellow throat)

Both strains are incompatible with each other.

Leucy's are a completely different type of mutation. The other two described have to do with a breakdown of the manufacture of the precursor pigments (in the case of black, tyrosine -> melanin).

In the case of leucism, the CELL that produces all the pigments if completely missing, so while the precursor pigments (tyrosine, etc) may be present, the "site" of creation is gone. Sometimes leucy's will have a few splotches of colour, this is due to "leaky" gene expression where a few places in the body do have cells capable of pigment manufacture.

That's overly simplified, but you should get the point.

[josefg]

Thanks for your answer Katt!!

[derek]

wow thats a cool lookin snake.

[Lisa]

Hmmm we have 2 amel and 1 normal het for snow... wonder what would come from the babies?

[Cas]

Lisa, amel x normal het snow would give you amels, amels het for snow, normals het for amel, and normals het for snow.

Dawn