Mack snow gene

[Terryz_]

Hi all, wondering if mack snow gene is phenotype or dominate... The breeder told me that this pair of juvenile I got from him have mack snow gene in them.. Very skeptic about it..Because they don't exhibit any traits of a mack snow... They are now Id as super hypo baldy.. So the only way is to breed them and see what off spring they produce to confirm?

Thanks...

 

[whkrazyk]

MACK SNOW is co dom., do you have pics?

 

[BlackDiamondGeckos]

Ya, well hypo snows look nothing like snows. Same thing with actually most snows as they get older. Most lose the nice white background to something more yellow and the spots take over. It's nearly impossible to tell low quality mack adults from normals. Even good quality ones are hard to tell apart. The ones that hold the white the best are line breds, gems, tugs, etc.

 

[Sunrise Reptile]

Like Kyle said, they're co-dominant. If you don't have a homozygous Mack Snow, you won't get any Macks from that pair. And if you can't tell visually, then the only way to find out is test-breeding. :main_yes:

 

[BlackDiamondGeckos]

hmmm well codom mack snows show both as homozygous and hets---

hets are normal visual mack snows, and homozygous are visual super snows...

I don't see why no macks would come from the pairing, maybe I'm just misunderstanding something.

 

[Terryz_]

Hmmm, so meaning mack snow trait will show if they have the genes..
They are still quite young now... Not sure if can see it now... They don't look anything like mack snow baby at all..

 

[Terryz_]

 

[Sunrise Reptile]

hmmm well codom mack snows show both as homozygous and hets---

hets are normal visual mack snows, and homozygous are visual super snows...

I don't see why no macks would come from the pairing, maybe I'm just misunderstanding something.

I think the confusion is in my wording.

1.) The snow we're talking about is Co-Dominant. There is no recessive Snow gene that I'm aware of.
2.) My wording was really bad. Mack Snow is the heterozygous form, yes. I should have said visible Mack Snow and left it at that. And what I was trying to say is that you should be able to see if its Mack Snow or not.
3.) Super Snow is the homozygous form, you're right. Again, poor choice of words on my part.

Now, based on the pictures below, it looks like they could be Hypo Snows. But I can understand your confusion. I think test breeding is in order. :main_yes:

 

[BalloonzForU]

Those are super hypos not Snows at all. Being that young they would still have some some resemblence of a snow. It's very poss they were snow sibs and the person doesn't understand how the snow gene works or .........

 

[Sunrise Reptile]

I agree with Fe. There's definitely Tang influence, but I don't really see an indication of Mack Snow. Any chance you misunderstood, and he said het Sunglow or het Hybino? It also may be best to contact the person you got them from to discuss, if that's an option.

 

[Terryz_]

Those are super hypos not Snows at all. Being that young they would still have some some resemblence of a snow. It's very poss they were snow sibs and the person doesn't understand how the snow gene works or .........

He told me that one of the parent is a mack snow.. So I bought both of them from his description.. But I am not particularly disappointed thou... Because they seems like carrot tail to me.. They are showing much orange on their tails, not sure if the orange will fade away when they grow up..

 

[BlackDiamondGeckos]

ya, those aren't snows...

being that one parent is a snow means that there's a 50/50 chance of hatching out snows- these are not snows though.

 

[Terryz_]

I agree with Fe. There's definitely Tang influence, but I don't really see an indication of Mack Snow. Any chance you misunderstood, and he said het Sunglow or het Hybino? It also may be best to contact the person you got them from to discuss, if that's an option.

Yupz... Actually, my same sentiments when I first see them.. He only told me the parentage of the baby... He is not really sure what morph are they too at that moment... But I got them at a discounted price.. So nothing much to complain about..

 

[Terryz_]

ya, those aren't snows...

being that one parent is a snow means that there's a 50/50 chance of hatching out snows- these are not snows though.

So that does not they have snow genes in them too...