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Photo by Christine Cotter · BP Exotics · Instagram

Sub-adult female Arctic Yeti

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Component genes

AlbinoAxanthicArcticAnaconda

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Also known as

Arctic Snow Conda

The genetics

Albino

Recessive

Albino is a recessive, amelanistic mutation in which melanin is absent entirely. The normal blotched pattern stays visible but loses all black pigment, leaving red, orange, or yellow tones with red eyes.

Axanthic

Recessive

Axanthic is a recessive mutation that removes yellow (xanthin) pigment while leaving melanin intact. The result is a gray, black, and white snake that keeps its normal pattern and dark eyes but loses all warm coloration.

Arctic

Incomplete Dominant

Arctic is an incomplete-dominant gene that tends to brighten, clean up, and cool the overall appearance of a Western Hognose. Arctic animals often show a lighter base color, sharper contrast, cleaner pattern, brighter coloration, white outlines around pattern elements, and speckling/flecking compared to non-Arctic animals.

Anaconda

Incomplete Dominant

Anaconda, often shortened to Conda, is an incomplete-dominant pattern mutation. One copy reduces the normal blotched dorsal pattern, creating a cleaner, more open, simplified appearance — the pattern becomes reduced, broken, or simplified.

What makes a Yeti Arctic

  • Two copies of Albino — recessive, so it only shows when paired up.
  • Two copies of Axanthic — recessive, so it only shows when paired up.
  • One copy of Anaconda — the single-gene form.
  • One copy of Arctic — the single-gene Arctic form (incomplete dominant).

This describes the genetics of the animal itself — not the odds from a pairing. Outcome odds are the Genetics Calculator's job.

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