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I am looking to get into breeding snakes. I currently own a red tail boa and a cornsnake. Since corn snakes are easy to care for, and generally speaking the best beginner snakes, I figured the best way to get into the breeding of snakes would be to try it with my corn snake.

1. I do not currently know the sex of my corn snake, nor the correct morph term, although it has the red (albino) eyes, but is not white, i think mountain albino? it looks almost like a regular cornsnake, except it has red eyes and its color is alot lighter. (not sure the name cause i got it from petco years ago). so my question is, what is the best way to get a snakes sex determined.

2. What would be the best snake to get to try and mate mine with, any suggestions, ideas?

3. also, what is the correct temperature that i would need to keep the eggs at, and would i need an incubator?

please help me out with my questions, and provide any insight if you can, especially if you have done this before. Im not necesarilly trying to become a breeder by any means, just for fun, to see if a, i can do it, and if i can, i may try with my red tail later on.

thanks, greg.

when i first got into snake, i had no clue i was gonna breed them....i would say the first thing to do is to buy Kathy Loves book....the corn snake manual. and if you have a picture all of us here would be more than happy to tell you what kinda snake you have. as for sexing....if you can also take a pic of the underside of the tail, we could also do that for you and please, please try to get the corn snake manual. you will see what good it does to all your questions!!!

~kin
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SNAKIES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Corns:
.1 Normal (Gertrude)
1. unknown hypo? normal? (Romeo)
1.2 Miami Phase (Hector, Emily, Charlotte) thanks jeff!
1. Amel het Blizzard (Dunesbury)
1. Classic het Hypo, poss het Amel, Anery (Cobra)
1.1 Classics (Henry VIII, Cassy [Emilys babies])
.1 Amel (Pepperoni)
1.1 Hypo zig zags poss het Caramel (Bernard, Abegail)
.1 Classic het Hypo, Stripe (Gracie Lou)
1.1 Anery het Motley (Lleroy, Persia)

Rats:
1.1 Black rats (Willard, Cecily)

Cal Kings:
1.1 Striped Cal Kings (Dweezil, Skunky)

Other:
0.0.1 Worm Snake

~~~~~~~~~~~~~LEOPARD GECKOS~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. Normal het Midnight Blizzard (Mr. Spot)
.1 Blizzard (Blitz)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~TURTLES~~~~~~~~~~~~
.1 white cheeked mud (Opel)
.1 snapping turtle (no name)

well i am currently on vacation until august 1, but i will defently take a picture when i get back. I went to kathy's site, and my corn snake is an albino oketee. If its an albino oketee, what would be a good snake to breed it with (variety of cornsnake)

IF YOU WANT ALBINOS, you can breed with snows, blizzards, albinos, etc. if you want normals....anything else

but if you want to keep reverse okkes in the blood, get another b/c they are very sought after
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SNAKIES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Corns:
.1 Normal (Gertrude)
1. unknown hypo? normal? (Romeo)
1.2 Miami Phase (Hector, Emily, Charlotte) thanks jeff!
1. Amel het Blizzard (Dunesbury)
1. Classic het Hypo, poss het Amel, Anery (Cobra)
1.1 Classics (Henry VIII, Cassy [Emilys babies])
.1 Amel (Pepperoni)
1.1 Hypo zig zags poss het Caramel (Bernard, Abegail)
.1 Classic het Hypo, Stripe (Gracie Lou)
1.1 Anery het Motley (Lleroy, Persia)

Rats:
1.1 Black rats (Willard, Cecily)

Cal Kings:
1.1 Striped Cal Kings (Dweezil, Skunky)

Other:
0.0.1 Worm Snake

~~~~~~~~~~~~~LEOPARD GECKOS~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. Normal het Midnight Blizzard (Mr. Spot)
.1 Blizzard (Blitz)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~TURTLES~~~~~~~~~~~~
.1 white cheeked mud (Opel)
.1 snapping turtle (no name)