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Last year I got a young adult pair of corns in trade. They guy said he thought they were Blood Corns. I didn't really care as I am more into Kingsnakes and I was just going to sell or trade them. I ended up keeping them for several months and they bred this year and laid 3 eggs. I sold them after that but before the eggs had hatched.
Before I sold them I showed the adults to two friends of mine and they both seemed to think they were Keys Corns but they also said maybe they were really low grade Bloods.
Well the eggs hatched and I think one of the babies is anerythristic.
My questions are do the babies look like Keys or Bloods?
Does the one look anery?
Have anery keys corns ever been produced?
I was believing the adults were Keys Corns until the babies hatched and I saw what looked like an anery. I have never heard of an anery Keys Corn so now I'm think they could be Bloods.
I can probably get ahold of the guy I originally got them from but I would like to hear other peoples opinions too. Pics will be in the next to posts.

This is baby number one. I didn't take pics of number two because it is essentially the same just a little darker in tone.

This is the one I think may be anery. The pics are kinda dark and its in the blue but the center of the blotches are a dark yellowish brown.

and the one does appear to be anery...
if i were you i would keep them and raise them up and breed them back to each other if the ratio is right
adam
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1.1 albino corns
1.1 sinacorns
1.1 striped ghost corns
1.1 kenyan sand boas
1.1 mbk
1.5 ghost corns
0.1 lavender corns
0.2 bone white crosses
0.1 bloodred
0.1 striped albino corn
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0.1 albino nelsons
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0.1 anery motley
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0.1. normal corn het hypo,anery
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1.0 blizzard leo gecko
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1.0 3 lined mud turtle

I agree, bloodreds. They definitely have the diffussed pattern, white belly.
Let me just say that if I were you, I would be kicking myself in the butt for getting rid of the parents. I guess it does not matter if you are not a corn type of guy. I myself would try to get them back. Beautiful babies.
You can pass them my way if you do not want them! lol
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Well I sold the adults to a young couple for $100 pair in the last hour of the last Anahiem show and I doubt I could find them now. I'm not really upset because I am as I said more into kingsnakes. I will say that these corns have me kinda wishing I had the room to persue them more but I have plenty of kingsnake projects as well as trans-pecos rats that I'm busy with.
I do have another question and that is if these are bloods and one is anery is that what would be called a pewter?
When I had those adults I also put the male on a female Flourscent Amel corn and got 22 eggs. They all hatched and it was 11 males 11 females. All were normal colored and none had diffused sides. I sold 5.5 before I bothered to check but of the 6.6 left they all have checkered bellies. On some of them though the checkers don't go all the way across in parts.

I agree the adults you sold are bloodreds. If they were key's corns (or both key's and bloods), you usually see orange on the belly with the white. Rarely are rosy rat (key's corn) bellies that white.

Then, when you bred one to the fluorescent and got the "normals" with less than solidly checkered bellies, that pretty much summed it up. I don't see anything to suggest they are key's corns.

BTW, I won't say what they're calling the anery bloods, but it's not pewter. Pewters are charcoal bloodreds (the other anery). The name used for the anery bloods is also used for a morph of key's corn so it's confusing. The re-naming of that snake was hasty and has caused identity problems since they used a name already describing another morph.

Don
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That's 3 for 3 so I am pretty confident they are bloods especially with the info about the bellies of rosies usually having red.