Look what followed me home from the reptile show today...

[Tigergenesis]

This is my new male snow corn named Chile. He's an '02 and weighed in at 109 grams. I couldn't get a measurement on him, but I'd guess 24 inches minimum . He was being fed 1 crawler a week. I'm new to corns, so does he sound like he's on track sizewise?

He's got pinkish coloring on top and just before you get to his belly there's yellow. My boyfriend saw him and said 'albino'. I know he's not, but it got me thinking - what is the difference between albino, leucistic, snow and blizzard?

[MrsMacWin]

What beauty!! Very irrestible. Unfortunately I can't answer your questions.

[Tigergenesis]

No prob - thanks for looking!

[sophie42204]

Very nice looking fella! I also, can not answer your questions though

[The_Godfather]

Blizzards are all white with red eyes. Lucys are all white with blue or black eyes. And snows are pink and white with red eyes, they get a bit of yellow also.

[Tigergenesis]

Thank you - I was kind of on the right track. Are there albino corns - or are these kind of the blizzards and snows?

[JLC]

Beautiful corn!

The differences have to do with what genes an animal carries. "Albino" means they lack the gene that makes brown or black coloring. "Axanthic" means they lack the gene that makes yellow and red. So...if you put those two together, you get a "snow" that lacks both genes. Now, this is relative to bp genetics. I don't know if they use the same terms to mean different things with corns. And I'm not sure where "blizzard" fits into it all...but I'm sure it's just another term to describe some sort of specific genetic combination.

Congrats on the beauty!

[SnAkELoVeR]

i have a question for anyone that nos snow corn snake . my question is at petco were im from they have baby snow corns but they say they bite i would like to no do it hurt and how do it feel and how come they bite.

[DonMeyer]

Awesome snow.

Are you SURE! 24'' and an 02? That is extremely small holy crap!

My old Corn was like 18'' and about 2ft in like 4 months.........wow.

Snakelover: Put your hand in the tank and find out.

[Tigergenesis]

Yeah, he's a really late '02 - almost an '03. I got a really good measurement on him the other day and he's actually 29 inches.