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I'm looking at a baby anery cornsnake for sale. What does that mean. I thought it was a blueish color but I've been looking at the photo gallery and there are anery's that are red, brown and so on.

Anery is the lack of red in any snake... its usually a blackish/greyish snake with white and sometimes just a lil yellow on the neck/chin area after it ages

~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) {Reduced black}
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)
0.1 Blizzard (Blitz) SHE WAS FOUND ALIVE!!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~TURTLES~~~~~~~~~~~~
.1 white cheeked mud (Opel)
.1 snapping turtle (no name)

Anerythrism is a term from the Greek language meaning "no red," and it describes those snakes that are mostly black and gray (though some are more brown than black). Some lines have yellow on the lower jaw line that can be either extensive or minimally shown. The variability of aneries is vast.

These snakes are sometimes refered to as: Anery, Anery A, and Black Albinos.

They are distinguished from Anery B (Charcoal) and Anery C (Caramel), which are morph produced by different genetic mutations and are not compatable with one another (ie: cross breeding them produces normal babies het for each gene introduced).

The gene is recessive in nature, so it requires two copies of the mutated gene to be present (homozygous) at the appropriate location along the DNA chain (locus) in order for the snake in question to be an anery. All babies produced by an anery will be at least carriers (heterozygous) for the anery gene, and they too will produce aneries, when crossed to other animals carrying the gene.

Anerythristic animals are used in the production of:

Ghosts, Snows, Anery Episkiastics (Bloodred pattern combined with anerythrism), and all further variations thereof.
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

Especially as hatchlings.My pair is Quad.het anery A,anery B,hypo,and amel.They are hatching right now and each year I get anerys,but can't tell if they are type A or type B.
I know for sure they are het.for both because this year I got a snow and a blizzard.I will post pics of this years clutch when the last one comes out.It looks like an anery. also.

For me, the difference between the two was really obvious, once I had for sure seen an example of one of each, so I would encourgae you to look at as many verified photos of each that you can to pick up on the differences. But, short of that, here's what I have found to be true:

Charcoals (anery B) really look like their name upon hatching. They almost look like a smudged piece of charcoal in their coloring, and you'll find that the ground color and the saddle color are much closer in shade than on an anery A.

Aneries (anery A) ont he other hand are almost always a very dark saddle color on a very light background coloration. They will have the greatest amount of differentiation between the saddles and ground.

Other than that, it's just really tough...especially as they get older. Charcoals are almost always the darker of the two, but the dgrees of variation amons aneries makes it just nearly impossible to make broad generalizations.

Sorry that isn't more helpful to you...
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

>>I'm looking at a baby anery cornsnake for sale. What does that mean. I thought it was a blueish color but I've been looking at the photo gallery and there are anery's that are red, brown and so on.

Now that it has been explained quite thoroughly for you I will add a few pictures to help you out.

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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Draybar,
That is a good looking snake. I really like the patterns on the top of a snakes head. My wife almost always sees a clown face on corns. She catagorizes them as really evil clown face, evil clown face and not so evil clown face (she hates clowns). That one is a skull pattern. really cool.
Do you happen to have a close up picture of the top of that snakes head by chance? I'd like to see it.
Thanks,
Rob
p.s.-sorry for the hijack foxykitty
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1.1 Bearded dragons
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Creanscicle motley corn
0.1 Creamscicle corn

I need to increase my numbers. I don't like binary code.

>>Draybar,
>>That is a good looking snake. I really like the patterns on the top of a snakes head. My wife almost always sees a clown face on corns. She catagorizes them as really evil clown face, evil clown face and not so evil clown face (she hates clowns). That one is a skull pattern. really cool.
>>Do you happen to have a close up picture of the top of that snakes head by chance? I'd like to see it.
>>Thanks,
>>Rob

Actually this is two anerys
The top pic is of an '04 female, Bindi
and the bottom two pics are of an '02 male, Odin.
I will try to get some good head pics tomorrow.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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That sure is a nice one, great pics too. Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

Here is my anery. Very black, not faded, like some do with age.

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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints"

Not counting Hatchlings, this is what I have.........

1.1.2 bearded dragons
8.16.0 corn snakes
1.1.0 jungle corns
1.2.0 California King
1.0.0 Mexican Black king
0.1.0 Blotched king
0.1.0 Lavender Brooksi king
1.0.0 Sinaloan milk snake
0.1.0 Tri-Hybrid milk snake
1.1.0 Arizona mountain king
0.1.0 Congo African Grey Parrot
0.1.0 German Shepherd (hybrid) dog

Here is a pic of an anery baby, a amel baby(albino - red), and a motley baby (white belly)

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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints"

Not counting Hatchlings, this is what I have.........

1.1.2 bearded dragons
8.16.0 corn snakes
1.1.0 jungle corns
1.2.0 California King
1.0.0 Mexican Black king
0.1.0 Blotched king
0.1.0 Lavender Brooksi king
1.0.0 Sinaloan milk snake
0.1.0 Tri-Hybrid milk snake
1.1.0 Arizona mountain king
0.1.0 Congo African Grey Parrot
0.1.0 German Shepherd (hybrid) dog

If I remember correctly, melanistic means lacking all color except black. xblackheart, your has a bunch of black in it. Has anyone ever seen a corn that is melanistic or all black?
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1.1 Bearded dragons
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Creanscicle motley corn
0.1 Creamscicle corn

I need to increase my numbers. I don't like binary code.

>>If I remember correctly, melanistic means lacking all color except black. xblackheart, your has a bunch of black in it. Has anyone ever seen a corn that is melanistic or all black?
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There has yet to be a melanistic corn snake.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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Melanistic means they have a lOT of black. There are no all black corn snakes. Are you thinking of leucistic? Those are all white. The closest corns have come to that is the blizzard, but if I am correct, what makes them all white is different than what makes a leucistic texas rat snake all white. The rat snakes have black eyes. Its not a form of albino if I remember correctly. Kinda like the leucistic allagator.
hope this helps, and anyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints"

Not counting Hatchlings, this is what I have.........

1.1.2 bearded dragons
8.16.0 corn snakes
1.1.0 jungle corns
1.2.0 California King
1.0.0 Mexican Black king
0.1.0 Blotched king
0.1.0 Lavender Brooksi king
1.0.0 Sinaloan milk snake
0.1.0 Tri-Hybrid milk snake
1.1.0 Arizona mountain king
0.1.0 Congo African Grey Parrot
0.1.0 German Shepherd (hybrid) dog