Snow?

can someone explain how you make a snow?

A snow is a albino axanthic.

A snow is done in several steps

First step Albino X Axanthic which will produce normal looking offsrings Double Het Albino/Axanthic (aka Het Snows)

Second step Het Snow X Het Snow, your odds to produce a snow from that pairing is 1/16 chance per egg.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

... your odds to produce a snow from that pairing is 1/16 chance per egg.

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And you are lucky to get more than 8 eggs in a clutch. And the odds of getting at least one snow in an eight egg clutch is 40%. Discouraging, ain't it? :(

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Originally Posted by paulh

And you are lucky to get more than 8 eggs in a clutch. And the odds of getting at least one snow in an eight egg clutch is 40%. Discouraging, ain't it? :(

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But the time and effort you put into long term projects like double recessives makes everything worth it when you hit those odds

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Originally Posted by paulh

Discouraging, ain't it? :(

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Odds are tough, it's patience and luck and sometime strategy ;), for me with Double Recessive, I produce my DH females, raise them and then pickup a visual male het for the other gene. ;)

thanks

1/16 is not really that bad. When you think about such things such as winning the lottery. Those odds are what 1/ ? . Yet people waste time and money on it everyday. At least with a ball python project you have something to show for your real efforts. I'm Working on a project my self I want to make albino pied's. It's all fun when you think about it. The big thing is patience and not giving up.

Your chances of hitting a double homozygous recessive are greatly increase by trying! I stared with a male that was 66% chance het for both stripe and albino and produced a pair of albino stripes last year. As a bonus they are now cheap enough I can afford to keep them, lol. But if I had been scared off by the long odds I would never have even tried so go for it!

Mist water into cold air. :P