Part 2:
Now for the resulting offspring. The darker of the 2 recently died from aspirating a dose of jumpstart I was giving him. He never absorbed his yolk from the egg so was very weak for the entire 2 weeks he lived. I did everything I could to keep him alive.
This is the darker one. Sorry for the slightly blurry pics:Na'amaa
And the still living clutchmate of the above one: Charon
Thats all of them and I'd like some opinions from people here. I've never seen a true blizzard born with that kind of patterning on his head. The Dark one was amazing really and I was sooo hoping it would survive. My new project was going to be a pure black blizzard starting with him and selective breeding. I can only hope I get another one like him at least.
Anyway, I would like to see any and all opinions from people, especially those who have done blazing blizzard projects and if they've had anything similar pop out. A friend of mine pointed out that the darker one looked alot like Geckosetc's patternless mack snows they hatched this year though I know the genetics aren't there for it.. or at least I don't think so. I know they look somewhat patternless, somewhat blizzardish but not really either of both and Charon's pattern is just deepening.. so.. any opinions/ideas etc on whats happening would be great.
By the way. Incubation temps were 82 degrees throughought incubation. The albino that came from the same parents looks perfectly normal in all respects right now.. but I'm not sure if he'll stay that way or not.
Sorry for the long post and all the pictures but I figured everyone would need as much info as I could possibly give them to form any opinions.
Thanks for your help
Melinda Goodrich
RavenCrest Reptiles