I was just wondering about something: You can make almost pure red corns,and pure white corns. Could you make a pure black corn somehow? Maybe an anery with a blizzard or something? I dont really know a lot about breeding obviously, but it seems like people are pretty successful in making corns single color
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Black corns?
FF7Turk
Feb 08, 2006 03:18 PM
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Kat
Feb 08, 2006 05:37 PM
There has been some talk of selectively breeding very dark charcoals... but there's no true melanistic gene yet, which would otherwise be a rather big help in producing an all-black corn. Of course... getting rid of the white checkerboard belly is a problem in and of itself. While it's not too hard to get a fully white ventral side, I've never seen the checker color take over.
Incidentally, anery X blizzard = normals triple het for anery, charcoal, and amel. With amel in the mix, there's no way you'd get an all-black corn, as it removes the melanin.
I recommend, if you're interested in getting into this sort of thing, that you pick up a copy of the 2006 Cornsnake Morph Guide. Excellent info on what makes what, as well as on corn genetics in general.
-Kat
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goregrind
Feb 09, 2006 06:03 PM
has anyone bred a charcoal and an anery? maybe it would be sort of like the opposite of snow/blizzard.
my thoughts on an all black corn would be to make charcoal okeetees, then selectively breed, because youd already have lots of black. or maybe start with kisatchies.
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my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (zyklon)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)
ratsnakehaven
Feb 10, 2006 05:02 AM
...and Southwestern ratsnakes are closer to melanistic than corns. There's the chocolate emoryi and I've seen some very dark meahllmorum. I think a melanistic guttatus will turn up in the West first. 
TC
Kat
Feb 10, 2006 11:50 AM
Charcoal masks Anery. That is, a snake homozygous for both looks just like a plain ol' Charcoal.
-Kat
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xblackheart
Feb 10, 2006 07:43 PM
Even if it was not all black on the belly, all black on top, with a white belly would be cool. I thought there were rat snakes (black rats) that come in the all black phase (except the belly). Wouldn't that be close to the same things as an all black corn, since they are so closely related (if you consider them different at all).
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