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Differences between snow and blizzard

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Insanityarmy

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I bought a new snake this past weekend and was told that it was a blizzard. The more I look at him, the more he resembles pictures of snows that I have seen. He just seems to have too much pattern to him, I was told the pattern would fade over time but you never know.... I would really hate for him to turn out to be a snow because that would make me very unhappy.

Just looking for someone that can clear this up for me, thanks.
-Jeff

 
I can't tell you definately, but depending on the age of your snake it could be either. Hatchling blizzards have a slight pink pattern then turn almost pure white. Hatchling snows (I think) have a little pinker pattern that may fade but they still retain most of it.

Edit: Now that I looked at other pictures, I'm leaning towards snow, but I'm no expert.
 
Snows are homo anery A and amel. Blizzards are homo charcoal (anery B) and amel.

Snows tend to be heavily patterned whereas some blizzards are pure white, but a lot still have faint yellow markings.

Your corn looks blizzard to me.
 
That little guy actually looks like he could be either one. Either a Snow with a very soft pattern or a Blizzard with lots of pattern.
If the breeder says it's a blizzard it probably is. But contrast that to pictures of my hatchling blizzard:
snake6.jpg


And a snow I found on this web site.
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I'll put my neck out here, being that it came from DelMar, I think I know what table it was on ( not going to mention names here ) and it was a fairly big, if not the largest table there.. I looked at that little critter first hand myself, I was convinced it was a blizzard and not a snow..

On a young blizzard you can usually see the pattern, as this one grows older the pattern is very likely be reduced even more with age... Nice buy... :cheers:

Regards.. Tim of T and J
 
antsterr - Hard to tell...mine looks to be in between both of those.

TandJ - Yes it was on the big table so it most likely is the one you are thinking of.


Thank you both for the help.

Also, does he seem to be a little underweight? I have two other corn that are the same length but noticibly thicker.
 
not all corns grow the same proportions. A few months ago I was measuring and weighing my '06s. I had 1 snake that was 4 inches longer than the rest but almost 15g less that two of the shorter ones.
 
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