[Daniel]

Hey guys,

just to put some things right: It is known and proofed that the two amelanistic strains Iowa and Nebraska aren´t compatible to each other.

Snow animals are created when breeding an anerythristic animal to an amelanistic animal and afterwards breeding the offspring to each other so you will recieve babys that are homozygot for anerythristic and amelanistic.

So, if you breed a so named quad het. to another quad het. you will recieve only three different colormorphs: 1. anerythrstics pos het for amel Iowa and amel Nebraska 2. snow Iowa pos het for amel Nebraska 3. snow Nebraska pos het for amel Iowa.

It isn´t really easy to answere the question of Schlangenland. If you want to give your snakes the right name, telling everybody, what genetic potential your snakes might have, you have to write down the long version. Thats the crux, when breeding animals to each other which do have a lot of het-gens.

Your snakes would have to be named: The normal looking: Thamnophis radix het for anery and amel Iowa, pos het for amel Nebraska.
The amel. animals would have to recieve the name: Thamnophis radix amel Iowa, het for anery, pos het for amel Nebraska
or
Thamnophis radix amel Nebraska, het for anery and amel. Iowa
And the snows: Thamnophis radix snow Iowa, pos het for amel Nebraska
or
Thamnophis radix snow Nebraska, het for amel Iowa

That`s it. You can´t summarize this with the addition that your babys are offspring from breeding quad hets. to each other. Especially because the parents aren´t quad hets. as you can see when reading the explanation of Scott Felzer.

Best wishes,

Daniel