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I have a few questions for all you snake lovers out there. I have three beautiful corn snakes that I am wanting to breed. I am not sure exactly what kind each snake is. I want to breed the two snakes that have the best chance of producing the most marketable variety. I have several pictures so I will have to post a couple messages in order to get all the pictures. On the female I noticed that she has an unusually large head. She is smaller than my two males (in girth) but her head is twice their size. I am wondering if some corn snakes just have bigger heads or is she a cross? I bought her at a show from a breeder, so I trusted him to be honest in that if she is a full corn or cross. Thank you for your time and thanks for looking at my beautiful snakes.

Jonathan and Amber Bennett

You appear to have an amel (the red and white and orange one) and a snow as your males. Your female appeared to be a striped snow. All these animals have amelanism in homozygous form, so all the offspring will also be homozygous for that trait. If you breed the two snows together, you will get nothing but snows. If your girl is a striped snow as she appears, that will test the male to see if he's carrying either motley or stripe in heterozygous form (has one copy of the gene so looks normal). But otherwise you'll have an entirely clutch of white snakes.

If you breed her to the amel, you'll be able to see if he carries anerythrism in heterozygous form, as well as motley or stripe. If he's not het for anery, you'll get all amels like him. If he is het anery, you'll get amels and snows.