>>Alright well I have decided to brumate my snakes and try to breed them next year. I understand they are called rootbeer corns and when bred with similar rootbeer corns they produce creamsicle corns. My question is how much should I charge for the rootbeers and is there any type of market for them. I would like to get experience breeding snakes and probably will hold back 1 or 2 but I don't want to be stuck with them.
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>> Extensive Snakes

No, you are still wrong.
In your original post you said emoryi X normal corn.
This will produce 50% emoryi/50% corn snake normals (rootbeers).
If you breed these rootbeers together you will just get more rootbeers.
you have to have amelanism in the corn snake line.
So, if you breed the emoryi to the normal corn and the corn happens to be het amelanistic then you would get all normals (rootbeers) with 50% of these being het amel. Which 50% you will not know until breeding.
So, lets say you happen to get lucky and breed two of the normal (rootbeer) het amels together.
THEN there is a 25% chance to get amels from that clutch.
Basically a ratio of 1 out of each 4 has the potential to be amel.
These emoryi/guttata amels would be the creamsicles you are looking for.
With a normal emoryi and normal corn, not het amel, you could never get creamsicles. No amel no creamsicle.
With a normal emoryi and a normal corn het amel you could get lucky and have creamsicles in maybe four years if you breed the snakes at two years of age.
If you breed the emoryi to an amelanistic corn snake then the babies will all be normals (rootbeer) het amel (creamsicle).
In this case you know that any pair in the group will be het amel so it isn't as much luck-of-the-draw.
If you breed these babies together you are back to the 25% chance of amels (creamsicles). 1 in 4.
I hope that makes sense.
no amel in the mix no creams.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
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