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I bred this male ghost/hurricane motley to this female Amel abherrant pattern? This picture doesn't show the beautiful colors on the ghost, he has a lot of pink to his background color. I have a female pewter for him but she won't be ready for at least another season.

Here's the

Sorry, here's the female amel:

You'd get all normal appearing babies, because none of the traits match up. Ghost = anery plus hypo and that doesn't match up with amel. Motley is a simple recessive genetic trait. When breeding corn snakes most genetic traits fall into the "simply recessive" category. Unless they match up with another recessive trait, the characteristics (amel, anery, motley, etc.) won't be seen (that's why they're called recessive).

Although normal in appearance, the babies from those snakes would be het for the traits of their parents.

Tim

Third Eye

So... if I am hoping for something interesting in the first breeding, what would you recommend I breed with this male? Will the pewter with this male give me any nice offspring? Perhaps another ghost, or snow?
I really appreciate your answer, because even though I have tried to read up on genetics, it just doesn't click!
Beth

To get anything not "normal" you would have to cross the ghost motley to something either expressing or carring one of the three genes which makes up the ghost motley (namely hypo anery and motley). So anything expressing any of those genes crossed with your corn would produce a morph. Hope this helps a bit more

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It does, and thank you very much!

i would just go ahead and breed them .in a lot of cases with corns their are recessive traits hidden in the genes. it could help prove out any possible hets by breeding the first combo since those animals have the 3 most common recessive traits between them. they would prove each other out if they are het for anything
adam
p.s, i just like surprises
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hybrid breeders association
1.1 sinacorns
1.1 crimson corns
1.1 striped ghosts
1.1 kenyan sand boas
1.1 mbk
1.1 albino corns
1.1 childrens python
1.3 ghost corns
1.0 butter
1.0 snow corns
1.0 jurassic milk
1.0 house snake
0.1 anery pueblacorn
0.2 bloodred
0.1 eastern milk (eatin pinks)
0.1 striped albino corn
0.1 albino nelsons
0.1 anery motley
0.1 albino banded cal king
0.1 normal corn het hypo,anery
0.1 hypo tang hondo
0.1 rosy boa

How ya doing? Any bloodred babies? I have not seen any at the shows.
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Thanks for reading.
Big Tom

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