T. radix Iowa blizzards and snows born- surprise litter

[Jeff B]

Like I said in the original post the only way you can tell blizzards from snows at birth is the faint dorsal on the blizzards. In person the snows are just a shade whiter or less pink too but that doesn't really show up on camera. They look very similar until they grow a bit and shed a few times then the difference becomes more obvious. This is not new information, this is how they always look. I have produced blizzards several times in the past 4 or 5 seasons. I just took this picture of one of the blizzards (on the left) and one of the snows (on the right). It looks like about have the babies in this litter are blizzard and half are snows and this is exactly what I predicted from this breeding.