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Can a bloodred be striped? I have a baby cornsnake that looks like a bloodred but it is striped. I've never seen one like it before.

Yes there are striped bloodreds. But some stripe corns have a blood look do to the striping. Were the adults bloodreds?
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Big Tom

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No clue. She was given to me by someone who said they had spent a lot of money on her but really didn't think they could take care of her.

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Big Tom

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They're still pretty rare. Given that the head and belly pattern of bloodred and striped corns is virtually identical, the only way for you to know if you actually have a double recessive is to breed it to a bloodred corn. If you get all bloods, your snake is both, and all the babies are het for striped (and possibly more).

Good luck,

Don
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Good point. I was thinking of breeding my hypo stripe to my bloodred het hypo and crossing any of the hypo offspring. Guess it would be hard tell any hypo striped bloodreds from the other hypo stripes then (from the f2 pairings)?

or would any really "grey" heads be the give away indicator?

Many bloodreds do not have gray heads. Most of mine hatch with red heads. Sometimes, the belly pattern of motley bloods (likd this one) will tell you they are homo bloods, but don't always count on it.

South Mountain Reptiles