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If I were to cross my hypo brooksi male and a female snow corn can anyone tell me what I'd end up with? What would babies look like? They are both really pretty snakes and I'm just curious if they'd make pretty babies. Thanks.

Heather
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Heather
It won't be as easy as you think. It is very hard to breed hybrid animals such as a corn and floridana. You will probably end up with a fat looking floridana and a missing cornsnake..
Stick around and you may pick up some tidbits on breeding.
You will need a large group that reperesnts both animals. And it may take many years of exeprimentation. Simply putting them together is like mixing water and oil and expecting gasoline.
Breeding hybrid snakes is very difficult.

Breeding hybrid snakes is very difficult

Sorry I meant breeding to "create" hybrid snakes is very difficult. Breeding already created hybrids is the same as pure spp. Very easy.

And even if they produce babies, they will probably look like the results from crossing a normal brooksi with a normal corn. The corn's amelanistic and anerythristic mutants (which in combination produce the appearance called "snow" ) are recessives. Which means that neither shows unless the baby gets the mutant gene from both parents. Hypo in brooksi is probably also a recessive.

Paul Hollander