"Yeah, it seems like you can only make so many different combinations of colors and pattern until there's not much else that can be made without highly resembling another morph"



Yeah, although that can certainly be true many times with some morphs not being distinguishable by their phenotype alone, you need to also figure all the different phenotype combinations that can be made with a multi-morph homozygous snake, even though it may "look" like a more common single or double morph mutation. That is what John meant by the cornsnake comment where many of them look like everyday snows but the other genes are completely "masked" by the amel x anery(snow) genes.



Same thing with a hybino or pearl Hondo, the hybino looks like an everyday amel as well by phenotype alone. And of course the pearl Hondo(hypo x amel x anery) looks like an everyday snow.



Anyway, it really all depends on many things, and if your objective is to simply have a very specific and unigue "look", or have certain multi-morphs in one animal that can in turn produce more types of different morphs in a given clutch even though the individual snake itself might not show each one from possibly being masked by some of the others it has. This will be bound to happen with some multi morph floridana too that also contain t-negative x anery, or t-neg x axanthic in they genetic composition. This will likely mask things over just like the snowcorn and hybino combinations do.







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