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Here are some pictures of a corn snake that I just hatched last week. The parents are a male butter corn and a female snow corn. The other 19 hatchlings in the clutch are completely normal looking amels with no pattern anomalies. This is the first year I've used the male in breeding but the female has produced over 7 or 8 clutches for me with no stripes ever being hatched so this was completely unexpected. The baby didn't pip the egg itself, it was the last one out so I had to cut the egg myself. I don't know if you can tell by the pictures, but the head is a little bit domed as well. The snake also doesn't seem to act like a normal corn hatchling either. Definatly unusual. I plan on keeping it to hopefully find out in the future if this mutation is genetic or just a one time deal. Anyone else know of anything similar?

Mark

it most definetly looks motley stripe. But thats about all i can speculate, quite interesting though. keep us posted.

~WES
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It looks like an aztec mutant to me... not a motley stripe... that having been said, while the color and pattern are gorgeous, the snake looks deformed... :/ I don't think it'll survive (especially if its behavior isn't within the realm of normal), which sucks... maybe you'll get lucky and hatch out another oddly patterend one next year, one that's not deformed?
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doesn't look aztec to me Kat....sorry......and I ave seen hundreds of them.........from the first till now...

anyways.......

look at the belly.....I think aztecs have a pattern and motley stripes would not........

NO I do not look at aztec bellies....LOL...funny sorta.....

I will look at one...if there is no pattern I will post it....if there is a pattern........I will not post and stick with the first responce....?LOL......(circle talk).....

Have fun

JY

The reason I said aztec is because he didn't mention or show anything odd about the belly pattern... If it has no checks at all on the belly, then yeah, I could see it being a motley stripe, but like I said, he didn't mention anything odd about the belly...

If the belly on that critter of his has checks, then aztec is the only explaination I can think of for it.

You can get some pretty weird patterns from both aztec and zigzag mutations, but neither will have a plain belly.
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"You keep WHAT in your freezer?"
"Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

because the stripe doesn't connect with the head pattern and that is how you can tell the difference between a motley srtip and true stripe.

~WES
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that´s right but in this case it´s "just" a one day mutation!
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that is mint, a really killer snake you have there!
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I have to admit that I hadn't even checked the belly pattern until Kat mentioned it. The belly is completely white and patternless It probably does look more like a motley stripe then anything but I would hesitate to call it one until I could prove whether or not it's reproducable and not just a one time fluke. And if I do reproduce it, then I would have to see if it's compatible with the current motley stripe line. Sounds like years of work to me. (just the way I like it ;^)

Mark