>>If I were to take a hypo emory and breed it to a creamsicle (corn/emory), what would be the outcome?>>

First, remember your creamsicle is amelanistic and your male is hypomelanistic. Your babies would all appear normal, but they would be heterozygous for amelanism/hypomelanism. Second, your creamsicle is already part emoryi, although that could be a smallish percentage, not knowing the heritage. Your outcome would be bt. 50-75% on the emoryi side.

>>I am certainly looking at those beautiful cinnamon emory/corn crosses as desirable outcomes from something that I could maybe put together, just don't know if I have all the necessary genes.>>phflame

Whenever you create something new you take some chance as to the outcome. My rootbeer is different looking from most of the others because I used a Great Plains rat from s. TX. The number of mutations carried will also help determine color. Yours will have hypo and amel. Finally, my root beer is a 50/50 combination Great Plains rat and corn, and has equal amt. of characteristics from each ssps...


Now, to get a cinnamon, your snake has to "express" the hypo gene. That means you have to breed a second time. You can pair up two het sibs, or you can cross your root beer to some other hypo snake, such as the original hypo you made the root beers with. In my case I'm going to pair my root beer with another hypo corn. This will result in 50% cinnamons, which will be 75% corn. But, I'm going to also pair sibling root beers to get some cinnamons that are 50-50, GP rat/corn.

Hope that made sense. Good luck with the project.

TC


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