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is it a snow??

C

Corn Crib

Proud Snow Corn Owner
hi i have a snow corn, or so i think, well i have seen pictures of snow corns and they all seem like they have a yellow little stripe along the bottom of there sides, mine doesnt, is that just the picture or do i have somthing besides a snow corn? thank you.


corn crib

0.0.1 snow corn (female named Gumbi)
 
Snows come in variations, some more pink or peach, some more yellowish. If you think yours is a snow, then it probably is, but you could check out more pics of them. Depending on your snake's age, the yellow could show up as it gets older (mine did) but maybe you have one that won't. (Am I right about this guys?)
 
Blizzards tend to show a lot less pattern and are a more whitish color overall, where snows tend to have colorful saddles, often pink or other non-white colors. If you bought it as a Snow, it probably is. :)
 
Blizzard VS Snow

I have the idea that the individual scales on the snow corn are actually whiter than they are on the blizzard.

I am talking about the background color not the blotch color. Blizzards essentially have very faint blotches which one can hardly see. Whereas snows have a more defined pattern.

I am asking though, if the snow has a whiter scale than a blizzard. The blizzard scales I see are like a pearly white sort of like a very very slightly transparent white color, whereas on a snow they look like they've got white painted on them giving them a more solid white appearance. Check out the VMS herp snow and blizzard close-up pics to get at what I'm talking about.

Just my thoughts. Serpwidgets, tell me what you think?

Cordially,
Benjamina
 
I've been wondering about similar things, too. Everybody pays attention to black, red, yellow, and orange colors on corns, but the iridophores (which produce the white) tend to be ignored.

I know what you mean about the two different "colors" of white. I just got a little leucistic Tx Rat and he also seems "less white" than typical snow corn hatchlings.

I gotta wonder if iridophores are absent or present in the saddles of plain-old anerys and charcoals, and if that might explain some or all of the difference in appearance between anerys and charcoals...
 
my snow corn has round pearly white circles on her back and she has a pearl white diamond on her head. shes sort of a light cream color also. very beautiful markings.shes only four months old, cant wait to see her when shes matured.
 
my snow male who i 2 yeras old has clous to nothing yellow at al. He did get wery little after he turned 1½ years.
 
Well...Cotton Ball, my 'Blizzard', is turning into a stick of butter! She seems to get more yellow every day. I can see strong yellow checkerings on her belly and I am starting to see yellow outlines around her saddles....Is my blizzard just an anomaly? Here's a picture that I just took for this thread:

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As blizzards age, they do begin to colour up, i don'tknow how muc, but you can definitely see patterns in some adults i've seen. Where did you get cotton ball from, if it was a respectable breeder, i would assume that it was just a very colourful blizzard
 
your blizzard

I thought there was a big dicussion about that snake, DdotSpot, back when you got it.
Did you buy it as a snow but finally decided it was a blizzard because you thought it looked more like a blizzard then a snow.
Or did you get it as a blizzard but were wondering because it looks like a snow instead of a blizzard.
I can't remember which so I am just asking which it was.
I am not stating one way or the other, just trying to remember.
 
Jimmy Johnson said:
I thought there was a big dicussion about that snake, DdotSpot, back when you got it.
Did you buy it as a snow but finally decided it was a blizzard because you thought it looked more like a blizzard then a snow.
Or did you get it as a blizzard but were wondering because it looks like a snow instead of a blizzard.
I can't remember which so I am just asking which it was.
I am not stating one way or the other, just trying to remember.
Click to expand...
I bought it as a blizzard...
 
Ok

it took a little bit but I finally found the original thread.
You bought it as a blizzard but everyone thought it looked like a snow...
Don S. set most straight when he commented on the pink cheeks and his opinion it was a definite blizzard.
Sounds like he was right when he said ones colored like yours get a lot or yellow as they mature.
I can't remember who posted it but someone posted a pic of a beautiful blizzard with a lot of yellow.
Stark white with bright yellow. Very nice.
Sounds like yours may be headed that direction.
Good luck
 
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