Well, nobody can say for sure where their bloodlines originate so I'd never swear that I don't have this or that in my genetic recipes. Since mine go back so far and have never been out of my control, I deduce certain things. Like having hatched hundreds of them without a single bloodred. Regarding the origins of my animals, it's difficult for me to believe that cutting edge corns were commonly exported to the U.S. from Europe back in the 80s. Even amel. motleys were rare back then. I'm not entirely sure sunglows were named at that time then. I called sunglows orange/orange amels. back then. I called my reverse Okeetees "high white" amels.. I didn't know those names existed back then. The other thing that makes it unlikely that my lines were related to European lines is that Kansas wasn't exactly the mecca for corn snake breeding. It would take many generations of breeding and selling for those to make their way to Kansas if any were being imported from Europe.



Given the "guppy syndrome" nature of captive bred corns, it would be hard to say where most of our bloodlines originated. If someone proved to me that any of my lines were from stock other than U.S. bred ones, I'd happily advertise it. Personally, I don't care where they came from.

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