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Im still new but i received a comment on my male anery might be het for amel? How would this be known and what exactly is amel? Is it not the same as snow
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2.2 Columbian common boas (Zeus, Athena, Aphodite, Hades)
1.1 Corn snakes (Appolo, Boreas)
0.1 King snake tri striped cal morph (Helios)

amel is short for amelanistic or albino. To be het for amel one of the parents had to have been amelanistic. To get snows you would breed an amel to an anery and then breed the siblings to each other and you get a percentage of snows, amel het anery and anery het amel. The anery is mostly black and grey (dark pigments) the amel trait negates the dark pigments giving you the whiter color of the snow.

snow is a form of amel, just like butters, blizzards, opals etc that express the amel trait wich is the absence of dark pigment.

I made that comment because I assumed that the two snakes you showed were bred together, resulting in the two snakes also shown. A snow corn is what happens when a snake is amelanistic (amel - albino) and anerythristic (anery - black albino). Since the female was an anery and you ended up with snows, she would have to be het for amel.
Hope this helps
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ok, so you said the female was the snow, but the genetics work the same regardless of which sex which one is.
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