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I bred a beautiful Sunglow male to an amel female. The female has a lot of red and very little white. Knowing that some of the offspring will be amel, will they carry the genes to produce Sunglow (such as het for Sunglow)? Thanks, I'm a little fuzzy on the genetics within amel types. It's a lot easier when it's a normal x amel, etc!

>>I bred a beautiful Sunglow male to an amel female. The female has a lot of red and very little white. Knowing that some of the offspring will be amel, will they carry the genes to produce Sunglow (such as het for Sunglow)? Thanks, I'm a little fuzzy on the genetics within amel types. It's a lot easier when it's a normal x amel, etc!

A sunglow is an amel. The sunglow is just a selectively bred amel.
They are selected to bring out the colors and reduce the white.
Sunglow is NOT a recesive gene that can be bred for. Just a look.
so what you did was breed amel to amel.
Some may have more white then others.
The best bet is to try to keep the ones that most resemble the sunglow and either breed them to each other or to the sunglow if gender allows. Basically selectively breed them for the look.
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I believe sunglow is just a selectively bred amel, so there is only one gene at work - the amel gene.

Some of them might have hypomelanism involved, but I think I read it is just a selectively bred amel and not a double morph.
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1.1 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
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Thanks guys, that's what I thought. Like I said, the amels trip me a bit and I was hoping it wasn't a truly ridiculous question.

Corn genetics in general trip me up a lot - there are so many possibilies of combinations of things it is hard to keep them straight.

I think that's part of the reason why I'm so fond of a good looking Okeetee or Miami - nothing involved except for good selective breeding
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3.6 L. getula californiae - 16 eggs (Cal. King)
1.1 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
3.3 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - 14 eggs (Cal. Alligator Lizard)

>>Thanks guys, that's what I thought. Like I said, the amels trip me a bit and I was hoping it wasn't a truly ridiculous question.

with all of the morph names, pattern names, combo names and trade names it is easy to get confused.
That was a good question so don't worry.
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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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