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i would really appreciate it if someone who is good with genetics can tell me the type of babies im looking at because im getting ready to sell them to the pet store that i work at and if there better than normals than they should know.... i know the motley gene is co-dom but im not sure about the ghost gene...i breed boas and ive never seen a motley bred to a ghost so i dont know the potential offspring =( thanks for the help

All normals. Motley isn't co-dominant when bred to a normally patterned snake. Just about all traits in corn snakes are simple RECESSIVE. This means that unless they are matched up with another recessive trait of the same kind, they will not be expressed (and therefore appear normal). It's possible that the motley is het for hypo or anery, which are components of ghost, but there's no way of knowing that without knowing the gentics of the motley (e.g. what it's parents were).

Tim

Third Eye

As Tim said all normals if there are no unknown hets.

Specifically they should all be normal het motley het hypo and het anery

Sean.
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1.1 BRB
1.1 Triple Het TPRS's
0.1 Silver TPRS
1.1 Amel Bloodred Corns
0.1 Abbott Okeetee Corn
0.1 Blizzard Bloodred Corn
1.1 Thayeri Kingsnakes
0.1 Reeve's Turtle
0.2 Amstaff's
1.0 Pudytat

And since all three of those allele's are somewhat common, they won't be worth that much more than a normal of unknown hets.
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