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I have 4.6 corns, and I'm trying to figure out how to best pair them up next year.

The males are: hypomelanistic normal, hypomelanistic okeetee, blizzard, and miami.

The females are: 'odd' light anery, anery, creamsicle, blizzard, frosted snow, green-blotched snow.

I don't have much background on most of them-so any of them being het for anything is up in the air.

What would be the best pairing? Or would they all just produce normals?

thanks for the help!
-Cat

The males are: hypomelanistic normal, hypomelanistic okeetee, blizzard, and miami.

The females are: 'odd' light anery, anery, creamsicle, blizzard, frosted snow, green-blotched snow.

You idea of best pairing might not be mine, so I'll just give you the results that I'd expect from the various pairings. Then you can pick out your preferences.

Nobody has figured out the genetics of Okeetee or Miami phase, AFAIK. The Okeetee's babies are likely to be a bit brighter colored than the other babies, though.

Can't say for sure what is causing that light anerythristic. However, it might be a combination of hypomelanistic and anerythristic, which is called ghost. Hypomelanistic x ghost produces hypomelanistic (heterozygous anerythristic).

I don't know anything about whatever makes a snow a frosted snow or green blotched snow.

Blizzard x blizzard produces all blizzard.

Blizzard x snow produces amelanistics (heterozygous charcoal and heterozygous anerythristic).

If the creamsicle is amelanistic, then blizzard x creamsicle produces creamsicle (heterozygous charcoal and heterozygous anerythristic). If the creamsicle is not amelanistic, then the babies would be normally colored creamsicles (emoryi corns???).

All the other pairings would produce all normals, AFAIK, if neither parent is heterozygous for the other parent's mutant.

You might want to check out Mick Spencer's Corn Snake Progeny Predictor. I don't have the URL; try a search through the forum archives.

Hope this helps.

Paul Hollander

Thanks for the reply!

Here's a few pics of the weird anery:

She's boggled me since I got her a few months ago-with her odd coloration, and boggled everyone else who has seen her. Further down her body, the yellow spots turn a creamy-white color and get brighter as they continue down. She mated with my Miami, so I'm hoping she's carrying eggs

-cat

>>The males are: hypomelanistic normal, hypomelanistic okeetee, blizzard, and miami.
>>
>>The females are: 'odd' light anery, anery, creamsicle, blizzard, frosted snow, green-blotched snow.
>>
>>You idea of best pairing might not be mine, so I'll just give you the results that I'd expect from the various pairings. Then you can pick out your preferences.
>>
>>Nobody has figured out the genetics of Okeetee or Miami phase, AFAIK. The Okeetee's babies are likely to be a bit brighter colored than the other babies, though.
>>
>>Can't say for sure what is causing that light anerythristic. However, it might be a combination of hypomelanistic and anerythristic, which is called ghost. Hypomelanistic x ghost produces hypomelanistic (heterozygous anerythristic).
>>
>>I don't know anything about whatever makes a snow a frosted snow or green blotched snow.
>>
>>Blizzard x blizzard produces all blizzard.
>>
>>Blizzard x snow produces amelanistics (heterozygous charcoal and heterozygous anerythristic).
>>
>>If the creamsicle is amelanistic, then blizzard x creamsicle produces creamsicle (heterozygous charcoal and heterozygous anerythristic). If the creamsicle is not amelanistic, then the babies would be normally colored creamsicles (emoryi corns???).
>>
>>All the other pairings would produce all normals, AFAIK, if neither parent is heterozygous for the other parent's mutant.
>>
>>You might want to check out Mick Spencer's Corn Snake Progeny Predictor. I don't have the URL; try a search through the forum archives.
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>Paul Hollander

Looks like a normal anerythristic type "A" to me.