Snows

[tdemp]

so i am pretty confused about mack snows. If you breed a male mack to any other kind of leopard what do you get? If the mack is het for lets say albino, you get albino mack snows? How do you get all the awesome snows like blizzard snows, super snows, patternless snow, and so on? And could you guys tell me some stuff about snows
thanks tdemp

 

[mayabear52]

Mack snows is a codominant mutation in Leopard geckos.

Normal x Mack Snow yields half Normal, half Mack Snow offspring.
Normal x Mack Super Snow yields all Mack Snow offspring.
Mack Snow x Mack Snow yields 1/4 Normal, 1/2 Mack Snow, 1/4 Mack Super Snow offspring.
Mack Snow x Mack Super Snow yields 1/2 Mack Snow, 1/2 Mack Super Snow offspring.
Mack Super Snow x Mack Super Snow yields all Mack Super Snow offspring.
I got this from www.vmsherp.com on their education tab.

The whole genetic thing for me was like another language until I did some reading in the following web pages really helped me out (highly recommend) fhttp://www.vmsherp.com/LCLeopardNames.htm
http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_codom.html
I hope this will help you or atleast shine some light on what you are asking.

 

[tdemp]

k thanks ill check those sites out

 

[tdemp]

does anyone know how to make all the kool morphs that i posted in the first reply?

 

[PaulSage]

does anyone know how to make all the kool morphs that i posted in the first reply?

I'll try.

If you breed a male mack to any other kind of leopard what do you get?

Theoretically, half of the offspring would be snows. If the "other kind" parent is a homozygous recessive trait, all of the offspring (including the snows) would be het (meaning they carry the trait, but do not express it) for the recessive trait. What you would get really depends on what the other parent is though.

If the mack is het for lets say albino, you get albino mack snows?

If you breed the mack het albino to another animal either carrying or expressing the albino trait, then yes, you could get albino macks.

How do you get all the awesome snows like blizzard snows, super snows, patternless snow, and so on?

You would have to breed a snow to a blizz/patty/albino, and then either breed the offspring together or breed them back to a blizz/patty/albino. If you breed two snows together, 1/4 (theoretically) would be super snows.

 

[tdemp]

Thanks a lot Paul thats what i was interested in. The snow genes are so cool

 

[tdemp]

I just thought if i got a male mack snow het for tremper albino and bred him to my female albino, i would get albino mack snows right? is it then possible to get an albino mack super snow?! By breeding the offspring back?
just a thought let me know if that is possible as i do not know so much about the genes

 

[eyelids]

I just thought if i got a male mack snow het for tremper albino and bred him to my female albino, i would get albino mack snows right? is it then possible to get an albino mack super snow?! By breeding the offspring back?
just a thought let me know if that is possible as i do not know so much about the genes

Like Paul said, when you breed a Mack Snow to any other morph half the babies are Mack Snow and het given morph they bred with. The recessive genes still work the same. Het x het = 25% normal, 50% normal het, and 25% homozygous. The only problem is you never know which trait is gonna be a Mack Snow. Once you have Mack Snow Albinos it'll be just like regular MS x MS, but it'll be 1/4 albino, 1/2 MS Albino, and 1/4 SS Albino.

 

[tdemp]

sweet thanks a lot its starting to make more and more sense when you guys explain it in 'human' lol