What do you think this is?

[Azazel]

Hi, I bought this guy a few months ago as a Mack Snow male. Do you think he looks like one? He is in a midst of shed by the way.

Thanks in advance.

 

[strigoii]

mack snow (like all SNOW) has NO YELLOW and orange. it is black&white ONLY

 

[jmlslayer]

mack snow (like all SNOW) has NO YELLOW and orange. it is black&white ONLY

thats not all true alot of macks now days has yellow and some look so much like normals thats its confusing

 

[Azazel]

thats not all true alot of macks now days has yellow and some look so much like normals thats its confusing

So how do one know?

I have another specimen that was whitish with black spots when it was younger. Now he's also turning yellowish. Take a look

 

[strigoii]

according to Ron Tremper snow is white and black only, and you can say for sure only by adult's look that it is true snow

 

[Bandit2008]

according to Ron Tremper snow is white and black only, and you can say for sure only by adult's look that it is true snow

Not true, there some mack with a lot of yellow....and them produme SS so 100% mack, a pic of the gecko just hatched could help very much.

 

[Retribution Reptiles]

and RT also believes in Santa and the Tooth Fairy. Do you?

That was a low blow i'm sorry. Just don't take the word of one person, actually do some research and stop taking that book as the Bible of Leopard Geckos. Everyone was given their own mind for a reason it is to make up your own mind on what is fact and what is fiction.

A snow when born is TYPICALLY black and white as it ages it gains more yellows and possible purple/lavender i have a MS right now has some green in it.

You make by confusing a Line Bred Snow for a Mack Snow. For i do believe that Line Bred Snows from my understanding do not produce Super Snows. But they do have extreme white and black markings

 

[Retribution Reptiles]

PLUS i have a cremesicle that has heavy orange in the tail.

 

[Azazel]

Sorry to intrude guys but I'm lost. What's the differences between a Mack snow and a Line Bred Snow? I googled but way too much array of pictures with the same "snowy" names. Confusing indeed.

 

[supperl]

Line breed snow is a Snow that was breed to loose colour. YOu see a gecko with less colour and pair it with another one with les colour an hope you get a gecko with even lesser colour.
A Mack Snow ist a genetic incomplete dominant or as most say co-dominant trait.
The het form is the Mack Snow the homo form aka super form is the MSS

You can´t judge from an adult if it is mack or not only a few out their on which you can say it. I have Mack Bell and Bell albinos which looks exactly the same and RT saying snows are B&W I guess he means linebreed and not mack as you can have the Snowglow which has nearly more colour than a normal SUnglow *G*
I have no Mack that still is b&w.
YOu can only say by testbreeding or having a hatchlign picture if you have or not have a mack cause as babies you see it!

 

[jmlslayer]

and RT also believes in Santa and the Tooth Fairy. Do you?

LMAO i was just about to type something like that !!!!:main_laugh:

 

[rawson5084]

Very pretty

 

[strigoii]

about tooth fairy - no, I don't. )) she is not in our common myths and tales))))))))))
I just think the same way, as Ron. And it is not necessary to use his book as a bible to say so, I just think the same way - why to call gecko a snow, if it looks like Normal (or even tangerine)? and if 2 like one on the pic will give super snow, so that means they both carry a gene, wright?

 

[acpart]

about tooth fairy - no, I don't. )) she is not in our common myths and tales))))))))))
I just think the same way, as Ron. And it is not necessary to use his book as a bible to say so, I just think the same way - why to call gecko a snow, if it looks like Normal (or even tangerine)? and if 2 like one on the pic will give super snow, so that means they both carry a gene, wright?

That's an interesting question, why call a gecko a snow if it isn't just black and white. In my way of thinking, "tangerine", for instance, refers to a gecko that has a tangerine color and if a tangerine parent produces a baby that's yellow, it's not a tangerine. In the case of a Mack snow, if the baby is born black and white banded, it's genetically a snow and also visibly a snow. If it doesn't keep its black and white color, I think a person could call it genetically a snow (as opposed to the product of a mack snow and a non-snow which is born black and yellow banded and is not genetically a snow). One would have to trust the breeder as to whether it is geneticallya snow. I produced a variety of animals this season, some of whom look like snows and some don't, but all genetically snows.

Aliza

 

[Gregg M]

according to Ron Tremper snow is white and black only, and you can say for sure only by adult's look that it is true snow

"True" Mack Snow hatchling...

The same hatchling a couple of months later...

There goes that theory... LOL

 

[Retribution Reptiles]

The way i see it a Mack Snow is a genetic line of snow. Regardless of coloration it will produce Mack Snows or even Super Snows (when bred to another Mack Snow).