found the website for the American Cornsnake Registry today. What an awesome resource that must be for cornsnake breeders. In theory being able to trace where colours have originated from. Im also a little skeptical about it though, as who to say when someone puts up something that its actual factual, or if its just someone trying to gain some credit or jump a few steps. It has got me thinking though, im still caught up trying to work out whìch of my snakes will get bred to the others. I have the anery pair now, but they are siblings. I can either breed them together, which gives me a full clutch of anerys, which is of course great for the money side of things, but more importantly lets me prove that the anery gene i have is recessive and i do end up with a whole clutch. Or i can out cross them both, and end up with many 100% hets. But what is better, proving it to be the anery gene, or getting it crossed out to many other snakes? Be interested to know what people did with there first morphs, did you line bred or outcross to start with?

What are the problems associated with in breeding as such in snakes? and by outcrossing the genes, can anything happen to them, ie the genes alter somehow so that they are not compatible? (might be a stupid question, so give me a stupid answer if it is) but have wondered about it.

Now back to sort of what i was trying to get at, and it was the cornsnake registry that can me thinking about it. Are breeders in the BRB community open with each other about what they are producing or trying to produce? ie trying to work out which lines are working with what (different hypo and anery lines for example) or are there many hidden jackpots hidden amongst breeders racks? are there brb ghosts already, albino hets in collings cages, where are the stripes etc etc etc? Would be great to sort of know a family tree of the morphs, as i guess there still arent that many around. Maybe hets, but not full blown aneries and hypos. For example is my anerys, at first i was skeptical, but now have seen birth pics of them, and they much much more black and white. Now im guessing that they have come from the seib line, but i cant be sure. It would be a great thing to know though, as when i next purchase one, i would want to decide if was going for a same line or another line, to see if compatible



sorry it 3am here, and im rambling along about what ever is in my head, feel like im turning into frank n/p roberts!!!
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Dave



2.2 Normal BRBs

0.1 Anery BRB

2.1 66% poss het anery BRB

1.1 het hypo BRB



Paid for, but stuck in europe somewhere hope to get from next german show

1.0 Anery BRB

0.1 66% poss het anery BRB

2.5 66% poss het new european line hypo

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