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Still a bit confused on the anery A and B question, probably stemming from the fact that I have a ghost, an anery with a ton of yellow, and a baby anery related to the one with yellow, but the baby has absolutely no yellow. So, does one definately carry the other? Does my snow have both? Should I not breed my creamcicle to my anery yellow? I have a double yet with the snow now, that should be a fun cluth to watch hatch, and my crazy ghost with my crazy striped that made crazy babies last year, but beyond that, I just need a little clarification on the anery fiasco. Any help from anyone would be great. Simplify though, I'm a cop, we are inherently stupid.

AJ

p.s. Picture is the baby that's anery no yellow...

There is no real way to tell now if your anery is a Charcoal. Only way to proof is breeding it to a Blizzard or Charcoal that is NOT het Anery A. I have seen many Anery A without yellow as babies. I think they are the nicest aneries around
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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield

Heck, Marcel, I used to have an Anery A that was a nice black and grey... with NO yellow on him anywhere. Even so, he was unmistakably an anery A.

The best way to differentiate between Anery A and Charcoal is to compare the background color of the snake to its saddle color. Charcoals will have low contrast between the two. Anery As will have high contrast between the two.

The only exception to this rule that I've seen is those Anery As that wind up looking ghostlike as adults... but those still look like typical anery As as hatchlings.

-Kat
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"You keep WHAT in your freezer?"
"Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

Don't most cornsnakes develop yellow as they grow? I haven't seen many babies outside of the carmel lines that have very much, and even then it still gets more intense as they age. It would be difficult to tell Anery A from B as babies that way, plus I have an A with very little yellow and I have heard charcoals can develop it. I think Marcel's right breeding trials are the best way to know for sure.
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Anna

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Corns
1.0 Snow - Cornelius
1.1 Ghost(pastel) - Gray Ghost & Pink
1.1 Amel - Parker & Scarlet
0.1 Hypo - Nikko
0.1 Anery - Missy
0.1 Hypo Motley - Cordelia aka Cordy
Boas
0.1 Columbian (BCC) - Bella
Lizards
1.0 Leopard Gecko - Leo
Rats
0.1 Dumbo Agouti - Moon
1.0 Silvered Black - Pluto
1.0 Powder Blue - Corner
0.1 Dumbo Siamese - Lily
Plus the breeders & babies
Cats
1.1 Siamese - Blue & Fiona
0.1 Gray DMS - Druscilla aka Dru
Horses
1.0 Thourghbred (Hunter/Jumper) - Morgan's Majesty aka Cody