Blizzard vs Leucy Rat

[mattah320]

I've always been extremely attracted to the leucy rats, I love how they have the blue-gray eyes. The blizzard corns are beautiful too, but they all are from albino strains, yes? Has anyone tried or know of a breeder that has gotten a leucistic corn?

[kc261]

I did quite a bit of browsing the internet about corns & their morphs during the summer, and I do not recall anything about a leucistic corn. I'm pretty sure the various "white" morphs were all combos that included amel, which will make the eyes red.

[kc261]

I forgot to add that I know there are lots of corn hybrids that come in all sorts of colors. I would not be surprised if you can get a lucy corn hybrid.

Also, I did some browsing since my last post to see if I could find anything. I did not find a lucy corn (hybrid or not), but it certainly wasn't an exhaustive search. I did find a "powder" which is a 4 combo morph: amel, anery, charcoal, & hypo, that is quite interesting. The poster said it is starting to show some blue in the red amel eye. Very pretty and interesting:
http://www.cornsnakesource.com/forum...coal-hypo.html

[Jyson]

It wouldn't surprise me if someone was working on a leucistic corn snake project. For the most part there aren't too many Co-Dominant Corn Snake morphs out there, so most question if its even possible. Which imo sucks, because I too would love to have a BEL corn snake.

The Blizzards are basically just a snow (albino + Anery), but with a different type of anery that produces whiter looking ones, aka blizzards.

[Blue Apple Herps]

There's no known leucistic cornsnake gene. And so far there is only one dominant corn morph: the tessera corn. It's a pattern mutation, it should be known this year if there is a super. The rest are just simple recessive genes.

The Blizzards are basically just a snow (albino + Anery), but with a different type of anery that produces whiter looking ones, aka blizzards.

Snows are albino + anery A and blizzards are albino + anery B (or charcoal); so technically blizzards aren't snows at all.

[4theSNAKElady]

Leucy rats all the way They have totally different personalities than corns.

[Jsh]

When I think snow I always think recessive (albino + anrey). When I think BEL I think dom/co-dom with the BEL being the super form. I believe the Lucy is the super form of rusty? (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong)

Also, I'd go with Lucy too.

[mattah320]

There's no known leucistic cornsnake gene. And so far there is only one dominant corn morph: the tessera corn. It's a pattern mutation, it should be known this year if there is a super. The rest are just simple recessive genes.



Snows are albino + anery A and blizzards are albino + anery B (or charcoal); so technically blizzards aren't snows at all.

Yeah, I saw the tessera corn on one website, $1200!! Very pretty snake though.

[mattah320]

Leucy rats all the way They have totally different personalities than corns.

HAHA!! Thats what I've heard. I'd stick with a corn because of the chill factor (which I heard some leucy rats can be as well), but mainly because of the size...cornsnakes stay on the smaller side. Would a 20 L tank be enough to house a leucy rat?

[Blue Apple Herps]

Yeah, I saw the tessera corn on one website, $1200!! Very pretty snake though.

Well like any new morph, they command a high price. But they will fall, and at a faster rate, too. Because they're dominant, you'll get them in the F1 and not have to wait for the F2, so they'll be produced faster.