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Originally Posted by atmox
I've been breaking my head over this, i swear i saw this morph before listed somewhere as a paradox snow some months ago but i can't find it anywhere now.
Also i can't understand all the difficult words in the original post here but i think if you breed it into other morphs it wouldn't change the white but the speckles. Unless this morph was discovered while aiming for blizzards. If I'm correct this would mean if you breed a blizzard Palmetto you would get something that looks like a leucistic corn snake. And that would be awesome 'cause i love white snakes!
Anyway i also really love the palmetto but it's way too expensive for me now, lol.
Ooh and i've been using ians vivarium for a long time now and i think many members here use it too.
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Firstly, The Palmetto was not discovered in a breeding project. The original male was WC. Here is a link to how it came to be.
http://cornsnakes.net/snakes-for-sal...category_id=68
Secondly, there have been many Paradox Snows of varying "looks" and degrees of "speckling", but none have ever proven to be genetically reproducible. That is why this gene is special, it has been proven to be simple recessive.
Lastly, at this point we have no idea how morph combos will look down the road. They may all be pretty much clones of what we already see but with colored speck (or flecks if you prefer). It is way too soon to know how it will look down the road. So far there are only three clutches and they are all het duaghter's bred back to dad. Who knows, it may be a polygenetic trait and we may be able to line breed for larger specs of coloration, maybe not? Only time will tell.
dc