I'm getting a blizzard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mina]

So far I have the following corn snakes:
male lavender motley
male snow
female lavender
female amel
male lavender
I have been lusting after a blizzard for quite a while now, and so when we were at the reptile swap yesterday I talked my husband into letting me have a blizzard!!!!!!
Its going to be a combination anniversary/Christmas/birthday present, since they are in October/December/January.
So my question is this, what sex should I get with what I have? Does it matter? Can you breed blizzards with anything to get any other color? Or should I just get a girl so I'll have 3 boys 3 girls?

[dr del]

Hi,

Well I am not sure on what sex to recomend but I do remember that blizzards are homozygous (sp?) for type b anerythristic (sp?!?!) [called Charcoal] and amelanistic.

so if you bred it to an amel you would get;

100% amelanistic het for charcoal

to a snow;

100% amelanistic het for charcoal het for anerythristic

To a lavender;

100% het for blizzard het for lavender.


Does this help any?


dr del

[Mina]

Yes, it does. I just need to decide which one interests me most. Would they all look like normals as well?
Thank you!!!!!

[dr del]

Hi,

Only the ones bred to the lavender would look like normals - but they would be dual hets and I have no idea what a blizzard lavender would look like if you bred two of those together.

It might be pure white or it might be pure lavender or something else entirely.

The offspring from the other two pairings (snow and amel ) would all be amelanisitc with various hets thrown in.

You should download the corn predictor program and see what the mix of pairings could make.

http://home.comcast.net/~spencer62/cornprog.html

There may be newer and better versions out there though so a swift google might not hurt.



dr del

[Blue Apple Herps]

Yeah, pairing it with one of your male lavenders would give normals het amel, charcoal, and lavender. Amel lavenders are opals and are pretty nice.

Charcoal lavenders l've only seen as hatchlings, and they look fairly similar to anery lavenders. Now how they develop I have no idea, anery lavenders go from a steel color to a very nice washed out greyish look - whether or not charcoal lavenders turn out similar or different remains to be seen.

But I would get a female, just so you're not so male heavy. If you decide on a project you might want to start, its easier to get a breeding size male than a female, so if your girl is up to size, would be (relatively) easy to get a breedable male down the road. As opposed if you got a male and decided there was a project you wanted to started and needed to get a female.