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Hey, cornfolk,

I have on the way a couple of my all-time favorites: Miami corn snakes. Mine are wild-caught and aren't textbook grey grounded, but I actually prefer them that way.

In rereading all my corn snake literature, I came across a pic of a great plains crossed with a corn (from McEachern "Color Guide . . .". It had a solid grey ground and crimson saddles and possibly could be passed off as a Miami.

So, have these crosses happened? In pursuit of a "perfect" Miami, have people cut in with great plains? Are there Miami purists out there who put more emphasis on locale than appearance? Or is Miami now associated with a specific look as opposed to locale?

Just trying to get a feel for the current consensus regarding my fav corns.

Thanks!

Just wanted to say that the blinking smiley on my first post is apropos of nothing. It emerged as a result of some key configuration.

>>Just wanted to say that the blinking smiley on my first post is apropos of nothing. It emerged as a result of some key configuration.

I have been playing around with the idea of breeding miami to emoryi to work on that look but those will be rootbeers and never called miamis.

Miami isn't really a locale specific corn due to the wide diverity in appearance in animals caught in the area. Not to mention the fact that there probably aren't any corns caught "in" Miami. At best they should be called Dade county corns if they are going to be locale specific.
The miami look is selectively bred and miami corns are that...corn snakes not mixes.
Mixing Mimais and emoryis should make for some beautiful rootbeers but they should always be listed as rootbeers or as having emoryi blood.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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