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Can someone please explain the genetic and visual difference in the snows for me? I'm a little slow lol.
Thanks,
Matt
Thanks,
Matt
The different snows
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Use the search button, there's too much info to re-type. 
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He won't listen to me when I try to explain to him...lol....He's probably going to be mad that I said that.
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Is it that hard to answer someones questions without being down right rude? Im the resident genetics IDIOT and by my ownl asmission and I have no problem with it but Ill give it a basic shot:
OK Im not great at genetics but there are:
line bred snows
co-dominant snows
you line breed back into the line to improve on the colors etc.
with codoms you get snows and a super for of it (supers being whiter and brighter in most cases)
that is my lay mans terms for summing it up
OK Im not great at genetics but there are:
line bred snows
co-dominant snows
you line breed back into the line to improve on the colors etc.
with codoms you get snows and a super for of it (supers being whiter and brighter in most cases)
that is my lay mans terms for summing it up
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Except haven't we seen Mack x Gem = Super and other such oddities?
I'll be honest, snows confuse me.
I'll be honest, snows confuse me.
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and Im pretty sure I admitted wide and open that I am the genetics idiot and only gace a lay mans run down for summing up what I could
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Are we really going to argue about which one of us is more of an idiot?
"I am a bigger idiot"
"no you're not - I am!"
LOL
Hopefully someone far wiser than either of us can clear up the confusion.
"I am a bigger idiot"
"no you're not - I am!"
LOL
Hopefully someone far wiser than either of us can clear up the confusion.
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Please don't start with me cause I won't argue with you about that since I have full clarity about who the bigger idiot is, that is since you brought it up.
I may though, ponder within the first 2 replies which one was more rude or what was so dang hard that would cause a person to be such a posterior region of a human being instead of giving some basic info or a link.
I may though, ponder within the first 2 replies which one was more rude or what was so dang hard that would cause a person to be such a posterior region of a human being instead of giving some basic info or a link.
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Snows confuse us all I think, now that it has been found a Gem Snow, and some linebred Snows, can make Super Snows with Macks, but not by themselves. I would love to have an explanation for that one! :rolleyes4:
There really are only three appearances, of course there is some variation in each. Mack Snows are pretty much white, yellow, black, and lavender. Gem Snows look pretty much the same as Mack Snows. The best Linebred Snows do not seem to have as much yellow, or lavender. Then Super Snows have sort of a lavender to grey, or white background color with black striping, spotting, spotted striping, or speckling.
There really are only three appearances, of course there is some variation in each. Mack Snows are pretty much white, yellow, black, and lavender. Gem Snows look pretty much the same as Mack Snows. The best Linebred Snows do not seem to have as much yellow, or lavender. Then Super Snows have sort of a lavender to grey, or white background color with black striping, spotting, spotted striping, or speckling.
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Wendy, I think the first reply with the little smiley with the tongue sticking out meant something. People do tease eachother sometimes. lol May have sounded a lil` rude, but really everyone should try to use the search function first.
...and the second reply was made by Mallorie, giving Matt a hard time. lol I also did not see how Steve was starting anything, in fact I thought he made a joke that you were "arguing" over who is an idiot". I did not see anyone arguing tho`.
Please? ---->
...and the second reply was made by Mallorie, giving Matt a hard time. lol I also did not see how Steve was starting anything, in fact I thought he made a joke that you were "arguing" over who is an idiot". I did not see anyone arguing tho`.
Please? ---->
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Dan, Please do not attempt in any way to tell me what to do (take a chill pill), you are not by any means anything other than a normal member on this site, so do not act as if you have any right to tell anyone what to do.
There is no reason for anyone here to be nasty including ME but we all do it sometimes.
If someone is asking about genetics of snows:
you go do a search for snows
you will get a ton of show off your leos, and such and such that has NOTHING to do with the question.
So why can't someone just answer them, why do they have do a search for snows to come up with a ton of info that has nothing to do with what they want to know.
Are SOME of the members here so self involved that they can no longer help anyone, they sure can take time to make a smart remark but in the the same amount of time COULD have answered the question, but oh no, that would have been helpful.
And please do not come back with 10 paragrgraphs of how I am wrong, cause you know Im not.
There is no reason for anyone here to be nasty including ME but we all do it sometimes.
If someone is asking about genetics of snows:
you go do a search for snows
you will get a ton of show off your leos, and such and such that has NOTHING to do with the question.
So why can't someone just answer them, why do they have do a search for snows to come up with a ton of info that has nothing to do with what they want to know.
Are SOME of the members here so self involved that they can no longer help anyone, they sure can take time to make a smart remark but in the the same amount of time COULD have answered the question, but oh no, that would have been helpful.
And please do not come back with 10 paragrgraphs of how I am wrong, cause you know Im not.
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Wendy, No I`m sorry you are wrong, noone is telling you what to do. I asked you to chill out because you are jumping allover 3 different members for nothing. You took it the wrong way.
I have every right, not to be bothered with someone starting problems in this forum. I do not have to be anything other than a "normal member", to tell someone they seem to be overreacting to something, and try to keep the peace.
You are maybe just being a little too sensitive today? Thats what I meant, and from your reply to me/misunderstanding of what I said, and your above posts, it is pretty obvious.
I have every right, not to be bothered with someone starting problems in this forum. I do not have to be anything other than a "normal member", to tell someone they seem to be overreacting to something, and try to keep the peace.
You are maybe just being a little too sensitive today? Thats what I meant, and from your reply to me/misunderstanding of what I said, and your above posts, it is pretty obvious.
Oh for crying out loud...
Some of you are lucky that the other moderators are more tolerant of this crap [apparently] than I am.
Like Dan said, it can be pretty difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish them visually. There are polygenic snows and there are the mack snows which are incomplete dominate (but we call them co-dominate anyway in the reptile world for some reason). The polygenic variety is recreated by breeding geckos that exhibit the desired trait to one another. A mack snow can produce mack snow offspring in the first generation regardless of what it is bred to. If two geckos that both possess at least one copy of the mack snow gene are bred together they can produce the mack "super" snow.
I hope that helps to answer your question. Feel free to start a new thread if you're still unsure, or send me a PM if you'd like since this thread was so courteously derailed.
This thread is now closed.
Some of you are lucky that the other moderators are more tolerant of this crap [apparently] than I am.
Malt_Geckos said:
Like Dan said, it can be pretty difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish them visually. There are polygenic snows and there are the mack snows which are incomplete dominate (but we call them co-dominate anyway in the reptile world for some reason). The polygenic variety is recreated by breeding geckos that exhibit the desired trait to one another. A mack snow can produce mack snow offspring in the first generation regardless of what it is bred to. If two geckos that both possess at least one copy of the mack snow gene are bred together they can produce the mack "super" snow.
I hope that helps to answer your question. Feel free to start a new thread if you're still unsure, or send me a PM if you'd like since this thread was so courteously derailed.
This thread is now closed.
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