Interesting locked up pair of easterns

[ConcinusMan]

The snow easterns that are currently in the hobby look the way they do because they are Schuett albino

Maybe. I keep thinking that their dirty coloration is in the same pattern as the melanistics and so could be that color because of the genes from the melanistic side but we don't really know for sure, now do we?

I don't like calling them snows myself.

I agree. Afterall, it's pretty self-explainitory why snakes are called "snow" and it sure as heck isn't because they are the color of light coffee.

all one must do is breed a different type of albino into the melanistics. Or breed a melanin-lacking albino into an anerythristic morph.

Well there you have it. Aren't most snows produced by combining albino with anery or axanthic? If that's all it takes, then why aren't there already clean snow easterns, ones that fit with the label "snow" ?? Are there no anery or axanthic easterns? Why must one insist on using melanistic to make a snow? Seems contradictory.

..I'd put money on that any day. Since the florida strain lacks melanin completely.

Ahh... but the melanistic is just the opposite, now isn't it? It not only does not lack melanin, but there's something going on with those that causes an overabundance of melanin, so how can you be so sure that combining a melanistic with an albino that completely lacks melanin will do the trick? Seems rather "iffy" to me. I don't think anyone knows for sure exactly what will happen and that's why I mentioned the star trek thing.

Yeah right Eddie, it's hard to say if the dirty in the Schuett snow is due to the Schuett being T+ or the melanistic effects, or both.

Exactly. "To boldly go where no snake has..." oh, nevermind.