Where do Snowballs stand?

[Bradford Cole]

A lot of critics out there...most who don't like them never held one in person...ten years ago no one wanted an Axanthic because it was just a "dirty" normal...then came the Co-Dom Axanthic combos...

[Jason Bowden]

For me, snows stand on the expensive side. I'm not working with any axanthic ball pythons right now, but can see how a snow would boost along other's projects.
I did purchase a snow boa(BCI) this year because of his genetic "power".

[burtard]

I think they are definitely still in style and once any one has a snow in their collection they are that much ahead because making albinos and axanthics would be simple. Their isn't many snows in the world today simply because they are a double recessive mutation. Also, many breeders don't want to breed snow to snow because of the higher possibility of a messed up snake. Most will breed a snow to double het or something similar. I wouldn't hesitate to make snows or any other double recessive morph!

[Eventide]

A lot of critics out there...most who don't like them never held one in person...ten years ago no one wanted an Axanthic because it was just a "dirty" normal...then came the Co-Dom Axanthic combos...

Hee hee, I keep drooling at your Snows. Gonna get some Axanthics from you one of these days....

[Wh00h0069]

IMO you do not see them as often for two reason. Each egg from a dh to a dh has only a 1 in 16 chance of being a snow, and it is much easier to produce lucys. Lucys also look better, IMO.

[JayCee]

Is there anything you can combine a snow with to make it "better".

All the other double recessives, which are just as hard to produce, also combine with dom/co-doms as well to make even more interesting looking snakes.

Snows seem like a "dead end", at least to me. There may be something out there I don't know about, or some project that someone is working on that could end up looking really cool, but for now there just isn't anything that exciting about them.

[Ouroboros]

Nice snow. It looks just like mine does (no shocker)! Is yours also a VPI snow?