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Red eyes in corns = Amel??

tomsey Aug 12, 2006 12:07 PM

Do red eyes indicate the corn is amelanistic......100% without doubt......or is it possible for a corn to have red eyes and not have the amel gene???
This will help me to determine what came out of a clutch of Caramels. A few hatched that were light color with red eyes....Butters?? If so, would this prove both Caramel parents to be het for Amel??

Thanks very much!!!!!!

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draybar Aug 12, 2006 12:36 PM

>>Do red eyes indicate the corn is amelanistic......100% without doubt......or is it possible for a corn to have red eyes and not have the amel gene???
>>This will help me to determine what came out of a clutch of Caramels. A few hatched that were light color with red eyes....Butters?? If so, would this prove both Caramel parents to be het for Amel??
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>>Thanks very much!!!!!!

Well, I have actually heard of red-eyed ghosts (no amel there) but If you bred a couple of caramels and got a few red eyed babies I would say they are butters and the caramels were het amel. Much more common and likely. Caramels het amel are pretty common.
The odds of your caramels somehow throwing red-eyed ghosts would be astronomical.
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cornsnake00 Aug 12, 2006 04:18 PM

Pic of amel and butter for comparison along with a caramel.

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