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Just wondering if anyone has some that retained a lot of the white into adulthood.

These are two different females:

is that what a hatchling sunkist corn looks like???? I thought sunkist corns were hypo okeetee...or am I thinking of something else???

i forgot to say that they are beautiful snakes...do you have a pic of the adults??

Yeah, sunkist/sunkissed would be hypo 'b' okeetees.
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according to Rich Zuchowski at [bleep] it is a Sunkist corn. I also took this to several other vendors who specialize in corns at the Daytona expo this weekend and they told me the same thing. Is everybody at the expo just uninformed? Or are the sunkist and sunkissed two differnt morphs?

If it is not a Sunkist morph then what is it called???

Sunkissed is an Okeetee variant. Personally I haven't heard of a Sunkist but if Rich Z is calling them that I would go with it. I think folks were mistaking Sunkist for Sun Kissed when you 1st asked.

Phil

Actually, what Rich calls Sunkissed is exactly what Don S. described. That was exactly how he explained it to me this weekend in Daytona. And he had some Sunkissed for sale that looked roughly like a hypo Okeetee. Now, if there is something else out there that people are calling "Sunkist" that's a different story. Rich did mention to me about the copyright infringement issue as well.

On Rich Z.'s page for Sunkissed corns, he says "I actually refer to these as "Sunkist", but that's just because I am an orange soda pop addict."

So I don't know why he would call that albino the same name he calls the hypo okeetees.
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As mentioned by others here, the name SUNKISSED (note spelling) applies to the hypo. Okeetees Kathy brought to market. Black eyes. We can't spell it "SUNKIST" as that is a registered trade mark for many citric products and spelling it like that is an infringement of copyright. Hence, we spell it differently. Here is a picture of one of mine. I market them as hypo. Okeetees.

The albino you show us a picture of there will not stay that way. In the next 10 sheds, that snake will get progressively more and more orange. When mature, it should be very deep orange. I'm sure rich would concur as would other breeders of this type albino corn and the Sunkissed Okeetees.

Don
www.cornsnake.NET

South Mountain Reptiles

Rich Zuchowski does not frequent this site, I am sure that it is a misunderstanding and he could clear it up. But that does not explain the other vendors who called it that as well(?)
Maybe my memory is faded and it was something similar to "sunkist"?)My bad.
I was also told that sometimes the white (snow) part can stay white. But that the red bleeds into the rest of the animal most of the time.
So nobody has the name for this morph ?

I got my first ones from the Bells in 1997. When I got excited about how different they looked, they warned me they'd turn into ordinary looking amelanistics. The motleys did turn very orange and became some of the most shockingly orange snakes I've ever owned. The non motleys became regular amelanistics with slightly darker orange.

Those that have been in this awhile will remember that Rainwater advertised amelanistics that changed from one color as hatchlings to regular amelanistics as adults. That's what these are.

Since the adults get lost in a crowd of other amelanistics, I don't see much point in naming them. Those that told you some stay white have seen something I have not. I have hatched and owned over 200 of these. Never saw one keep the white yet, but I hope yours do. I have quite a few this year if you're interested in getting more.

Best wishes,

Don
www.cornsnake.NET
South Mountain Reptiles

That was the answers i was looking for . I bought these from a 18 yr old walking around at the expo who produced them but could tell me very little as he did not seem to know to much about them.. That is why i had showed these to others to find out about them.
Thanks for clearing up the "mystery corn". Hey thats a good name for these as its a mystery as how they could turn into a normal amel..heh heh