Welllllll is this a hybrid?





The point is you really don't know. This is a snow corn looking morph but you cannot tell what is in it. Can you?? Or is it pure corn? most corn hybrids tend to favor the corn look and not the other. In clutches of 50/50's I have seen some come out looking just like corns.





Since the advent of the amel corns, captive breeding has many hybrids bred into cornsnakes. How do you know if you corn does not have Bubblegum corn or something in it? If you buy a corn and breed it to another u probaly have a host of other spp in it without knowing OR WANTING to know. You just want a pretty corn and if that what your peers say it is and you want to beleive it then that is fine. I am not here to rain on anyones parade. Just enjoy what you have because YOU like it. No need to justify anything.



About the only "pure" corns are the ones that only a handful of enthusiasts are keeping as locality corns. These are ugly normal looking corns from isolated populations that most people are not interested in. The locality corn folks are not as numerous as say the greyband or rosy boas herpers. The only pure morph I know of is the emoryi ratsnake. The others are mixed bred for color and have all sorts of things in them. Heck even what people refer to as Okeetee corns are not even from Okeetee anymore. Could be any nice corn coming from a het breeding of some sort.







And yes corns in Florida and Georgia (ie greenish ratsnake) do mix with other species of ratsnake.

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