Blazing Blizzard With Snake Eyes

[Chris@TSE]

Not unless you have some of the original blizzards produced. As generations have passed it is rare to obtain the high white coloration some of the first ones had.

Easy enough however: Blizzard + Tremper Albino Eye = Tremper Blazing Blizzard. Not hard to identify an albino eye.... even if it is half black lol

 

[Lizard Lair]

As generations have passed it is rare to obtain the high white coloration some of the first ones had.

So strange (and sad) for a morph to loose quality over time instead of improving.

Easy enough however: Blizzard + Tremper Albino Eye = Tremper Blazing Blizzard. Not hard to identify an albino eye.... even if it is half black lol

Excellent point!

 

[wahberee]

I have blazing blizzards with the same exact snake eyes. Sold them though
My last male has normal eyes that are like tremper albino eyes. He is proven to be homozygous for blizzard and albino. From the looks of your geckos Shelly, I would confidently say that they are albino blizzards just on the fact that they have never darkened. I have hatched out some juvenile blazing blizzards this season with red eyes but I dont know if they will hold considering all my breeders had red eyes as hatchlings. I guess only time can tell,

 

[DeVackHerps]

i have a female blizzard that holds her white color most of the time. then she goes to a purpleish coloring. but yes very hard to find a blizzard to hold ther color all the time. and if that one is holding it 100% of the time. then it most likely is a blazing.

 

[aliceinwl]

i have a female blizzard that holds her white color most of the time. then she goes to a purpleish coloring. but yes very hard to find a blizzard to hold ther color all the time. and if that one is holding it 100% of the time. then it most likely is a blazing.

I wouldn't go that far... I've known a fair number of people with blizzards that stay white. The blazings seem to have that same pink cast, especially in the tail area that PA's have.

In terms of the morph going down hill, I'm not so sure. Some of the first people breeding blizzards were producing gray ones, yellow ones etc. The whole banana misunderstanding obscured the true identity of the yellow blizzards for awhile. Prehistoric pets also sold their blizzards using representative pictures, so all the blizzards they sold were probably no where near as white as those pictured. There was also buzz about midnights within a year of the blizzards introduction... I think that while Prehistoric pets was the primary supplier of blizzards, their representative pictures of white blizzards defined the morph. I'm not sure, however, how accurate a representation this was.

-Alice

 

[Lizard Lair]

He holds his color all the time as do the rest of the larger ones. Time will tell on the quality of the smaller ones. The ones with normal (not snake eye) eyes do have an albino eye (thanks for pointing that out Chris!). Then there are some that look like the eye is trying to be a snake eye but just can't quite pull it all together. As a result the entire eye is somewhat darker than the normal eyed ones.

Shelly

 

[Lizard Lair]

Alice, are the Blizzards that don't darken up more of a true white compared to the blazing's pinkish cast? That would be beautiful....

Shelly

 

[aliceinwl]

The ones that I've seen good pictures of have a very faint gray cast. Marcia of Golden Gate Geckos has one, but I couldn't find his picture. The thing with the regular blizzards though is that their color can change with mood. I've got a few that can go almost white when excited, but most of the time they're gray. Here's a couple of pics of two on mine taken less than a minute apart. This is also why I'm kind of skeptical about the potential of midnights as a morph. I've also included a couple of eye shots. I'm not so sure that the marbling / snake eyes in blizzard isn't genetic. Most of my breeders have it to some degree and so do most of the offspring they produce.

-Alice

 

[Lizard Lair]

Great pictures! Interesting how they change with mood swings. That does kinda put a crimp in the Midnight goal. But who knows? Geckos seem to be fully capable of periodically throwing out great surprises.

Shelly

 

[raiquee]

Shelly~

Sorry i didn't mean to sound to doubt you. I may pick some up now, i just had some doubt. Aren't the blazzings (if i remember correctly) only born with red eyes, and then they fade? Or is that something else?

Your blazzing is very white, mine are a nice purple color. Don't get me wrong, i love the purple color to them, makes them different. But i love the blazzings nice clean whiteish grey, with red eyes.

 

[DeVackHerps]

ive only seen pictures of the midnights none in person. does anyone know of anyone that has some or does anyone acully own one? if so can you find out if the colors are always that color as you see in the pictures. i was always a sceptic to the midnights. because ive seen regular blizzards go that dark. if they stay that dark i may be interested in getting some.

 

[Lizard Lair]

Sorry i didn't mean to sound to doubt you

I never took it as doubt for a single second - merely curiosity.

Aren't the blazzings (if i remember correctly) only born with red eyes

I didn't hatch these blazings - got them all from PP. But some of them were very tiny and the didn't have red eyes. The reddest eyes I've seen on a blazing is Kelli's BB - I think it was a Bell Blazing. I haven't seen any Tremper line with extreme red eyes. It'd be nice to get those ruby eyes of the raptors into the BB's!

ive only seen pictures of the midnights none in person. does anyone know of anyone that has some or does anyone acully own one?

I've heard that Garrick at Crested Gecko.com has them.

 

[aliceinwl]

ive only seen pictures of the midnights none in person. does anyone know of anyone that has some or does anyone acully own one? if so can you find out if the colors are always that color as you see in the pictures. i was always a sceptic to the midnights. because ive seen regular blizzards go that dark. if they stay that dark i may be interested in getting some.

As you can see from my previous pics my breeder blizzards are pretty dark. Last year I hatched out this little male. He stays dark pretty much all the time. So far when he's gotten riled up he only goes to a dark gray. I consider him a midnight (that's his eye in the last pic). Virtually all my babies hatched out black this season, but most lighten up quickly. Then, when they hit sub adult size, some darken back up.

-Alice