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Eublepharis macularius
Mack Snow & Mack Super Snow Care
Mack Snow
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Mack Snow
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Super Snow
Mack Super Snow X Mack Super Snow = 100% Super Snows
Mack Super Snow X Mack Snow = 50% Mack Super Snows & 50% Mack Snows
Mack Super Snow X WT (without trait) = 100% Mack Snows
Mack Snow X Mack Snow = 25% Mack Super Snows, 50% Mack Snows & 25% WT
Mack Snow X WT = 50% Mack Snows and 50% WT
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Make sure a shallow water dish is available at all times. Drinking dishes should be kept clean and free of debris.
Mealworms and crickets are the main diet of Mack Snow Leopard Geckos. Mack Snow hatchlings will eat quarter inch crickets. Adult Mack Snows can eat 3/4 inch crickets or larger. As a rule Mack Snow Leopard Geckos can eat crickets just slightly smaller than their head. They will not chew their food but rather crush and swallow it. Baby Mack Snows should not be fed mealworms until the age of four to five months.
Daytime temperatures should be around 85 deg f and may cool 70 deg f at night. A small part of the Mack Snow Leopard Geckos enclosure should be heated to 85-88 deg f and this can be done with a reptile heat pad placed under the tank. Do not use heat rocks as heat rocks have been know to cause thermal burns on reptiles.
A twenty gallon long aquarium is the minimum size enclosure requirements for any reptile. It is impossible to regulate heat in an enclosure any smaller than a twenty gallon tank. A warm spot and a cool spot are essential for housing Mack Snow Leopard Geckos and keeping them in good physical condition.
A breeding group of Mack Snow Leopard Geckos may consist of one male and three or more females. Do not house more than one male Mack Snow Leopard Gecko inside the same enclosure as males of the Leopard Gecko specie are highly territorial and will fight to the death.
A plastic container should be placed inside the enclosure as a laying site for the females. An opening should be made on the containers top or side big enough for the female Mack Snows to crawl in and out. Inside the container a moist medium should be placed such as vermiculite, peat moss or store bought top soil. The medium should be kept moist at all times. Female Leopard Geckos are drawn to moist areas to deposit their eggs.
Mating usually takes place in early January. After mating female Mack Snows will lay two soft shelled eggs in approximately fifteen days. A clutch (two eggs) will be laid every fifteen days thereafter throughout the breeding season. Breeding season runs January through July of each year. In the Leopard gecko species males can remain year round with their females.
The sex of the Mack Snow hatchlings can be determined by incubation temperature. To produce mostly female Mack Snow offspring eggs should be incubated at 80-82 deg f. To produce mostly male Mack Snow offspring eggs should be incubated at 85-88 deg f and the eggs will hatch in approximately forty-five days. To produce mostly female Mack Snows eggs should be incubated at 80-82 deg f and eggs will hatch in approximately sixty days. Incubators can be found at any local farm supply store and are sold as Hoovabators.
Hatchling Mack Snows should not receive their first meal until after their first shed which usually takes place five to six days after hatching.
Juvenile to adult Mack Snows are easily sexed. In male Mack Snows there is a row of a dozen or more pinhole sized preanal pores just above the cloacol opening. Female Mack Snows lack these pores.
A suitable substrate for Mack Snows may consist of peat moss and store bought top soil. Peat moss and top soil also help to absorb odor naturally. These are organic materials and totally digestible. Top soil should be free of sand as sand causes impaction in reptiles. Mack Snows will defecate in the same area of their enclosure making cleanup easy.
The next few years in breeding Mack Snows and crossing them with other morphs such as albinos, blazing blizzards, etc., will with out a doubt produce the most sought after Leopard Geckos which have ever been available on the Leopard Gecko market to date.
Breeding Mack Snow Leopard Geckos can be a very profitable investment. There are many different color morphs available in the Leopard Gecko market today but the Mack Snows are the hottest thing to hit the Leopard Gecko market today.
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Mack Snows are believed to be the first Co-Dominant form of Leopard Geckos. Mack Snows are a genetic line of snows and snow offspring that when bred together produce Mack Snows and Mack Super Snows.
This is a visible heterozygous form which hatches out white with black banding and gray eyes. The Mack Super Snow hatches out pinkish white with a noticeable white stripe down the back with coal black eyes.
When breeding Mack Snow to Mack Snow you will produce Mack Snows and one in four offspring will be Mack Super Snow.
Although the Mack Snow can tint to varying degrees with age the Mack Super Snows will never tint and will stay white with black spots all in a row.
This is without a doubt the most exciting breakthrough in Leopard Geckos today!
Below is a breeding ratio chart which shows hatching percentages and can be used as a guideline when you decide to start your own Mack Snow breeding projects.
Below are photos of Mack Super Snow progression over the first eight months of life.
