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tspuckler
at Wed Mar 1 07:16:36 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tspuckler ]
Tom,
That's a "very pretty normal." JK!
The trouble with creamsicles is that they're a cross with Great Plains Ratsnakes. This gives you two scenarios for variability:
1) Amelanistic corns are highly variable (candy cane, sunglow, reverse Okeetee, etc.) so the "look" of a creamsicle can vary as well.
2) Someone may take a creamsicle and breed it to an amel corn. The babies would still be considered creamsicles, even though the percentage of GPR is small. Therefore, you could have a creamsicle that looks pretty much like an amel corn.
Creamsicles do have larger clutches and tend to achieve a larger than average adult size than pure corn snakes. This is known as "hybrid vigor." Here is my het for cream female with a clutch of 30 eggs she laid last summer (most corn snakes don't lay 30-egg clutches).
Tim
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