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I plan on breeding my 02 amel to my 02 okeetee this year. They are both over 3 feet and 250 grams. I'm hoping the female will be 300 grams by the time I breed her. I live in South Florida so I would think they would breed here earlier than other parts of the country. Just trying to figure how much time I have left.

Thanks in advance,
Jonah

Are you planning on breeding them this season or next? I would suggest waiting until next season. I start cooling my animals off in December and warming back up the begining of March for breeding. I like to wait until females are over two years old and closer to four feet long. Your animals won't even be two until this summer.
p.s. Once females start breeding their growth rate slows way down.

Depends on your brumation practices or lack thereof.

We didn't happen to brumate this year. Breeding season for us started this week.

If you brumate, they tend to start in a few weeks after post brumation shed or after the second post brumation shed. (I've had them go both ways.)

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~~~Hurley

I'd love to see a photo of the whole snake.
Thanks.

Had a bunch of links about the snake posted, but Kingsnake.com has this sad, sad little problem with allowing us to link to corn snakes.com/forums, even when it is pertinent to the topic at large.

Yep, that's what drove the majority of the people from this site that I enjoyed corresponding with. S'all right. They've all gone over to corns nakes.com to converse in an intelligent manner without having to worry about a schoolyard tiff censoring their postings.

Thought I'd try to share some information on this forum that is very interesting and it seems no one talks about or knows about over here. Fascinating genetics discussions, lots of good things are happening. Too bad we aren't allowed to talk about it here or share information.

So, to answer your question...it's a new type of hypomelanism being referred to as "lava". Do a search for Lava and/or Trans on the co rn snakes . com / forums and you'll bring up a wealth of quality information.

Read fast, I'm sure this post won't last long either.

Returning to where the talk is interesting and uncensored, thought I'd give this forum another go, but nothing has changed. It's sad really, this site helped me get my start in cornsnakes.

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~~~Hurley

I'll go look up "Lava" now.

Do you have pics of hatchlings!??!

Random hatchling/pipping shots, enjoy.
(My apologies to dial-up users.)

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~~~Hurley

Thanks a lot for the pics!!!

Theses little corns are soooooo cute!!! so nice!!!

how many baby did you have since you breed your snakes!??!

How many hatchlings last year? Only about 40, give or take.
Small clutches.

I've got 10 females going this year, so we'll see.

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~~~Hurley

40 little corns is not bad!!!
I will be very happy to have just one of them when i will breed my corns!!

By the way, i wish you good luck for the breeding season!!
Your snakes are beautiful, i especially love the caramel!!! is that a caramel!? butter?!... he or she is awesome!!!!

Also, thanks a lot for the baby corn pics, i've enjoy!!! )

40 little corns is not bad!!!
I will be very happy to have just one of them when i will breed my corns!!

Also, thanks a lot for the baby corn pics, i've enjoy!!! )

Thanks for the compliments, and yeah--she's a caramel het amel (bred to a lavender het amel). Hopefully I'll get some amels het caramel and lav out of her.
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~~~Hurley

I started to read that thread, but didn't have time to finish it. I will try to get back to it again soon.

I also read through the whole thread about whether butters are really just simple recessive genes or not. I thought it was a very interesting debate. And it was enjoyable to read everyone's ideas without people resorting to childish antics as you so often see in controversial subjects. I was going to post there, but seems like all sides had been presented pretty well already.

Thanks,
Kathy

I read most of them and am so unsure of what to think. I wish there were inexpensive means to provide conclusive DNA testing for herps. This would clear up so many 'possible hets' out there as well as help to identify new morphs.

Either way it is a very interesting topic that interests most people. Are those your snakes or pics from the thread? I emailed J.Pierce and he never replied back. He posted some for sale on kingsnake a little while ago...the classified is probably still there...oh well....I was interested in what the closest generation (to the wild types) of his okeetees carrying hidden genes for the 'new' morphs looked like.
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That Lava male is on breeding loan from Joe Pierce, and yeah they are our pics. He has posted more pictures in a thread over there of various lavas of differing lightness and darkness as well as the original snake.

Interesting stuff, should make for a fun next few years.
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~~~Hurley