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Hello
I wanted to know the differences if any between male and female corns. I think females get bigger as a whole but males have nicer color?
Not sure though thats why asking.
Thanks
Lia

Actually, the males tend to be larger on the whole, due to not having to put effort into egg production. This is just a generalization, and there are plenty of smallish males and largish females out there.

In some morphs, the males can be significantly different from females... the biggest example of this is hypo lavenders. This isn't a blanket statement, and you can't tell a female of any morph based on how 'pretty' it is.

People who have been in this hobby for long enough can sex a cornsnake just by examining the tail, but for the novice there is no real way to sex a cornsnake visually.

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

Thanks. I am new to corns and looking into one. My enclosure is 48 inches long and 30 inches high (want to use sturdy branches) and 24 inches wide.
I wanted to get the smaller of the sexes so it would have plenty of room.
Lia

I think that the largest cornsnake ever measured was a male.

As far as colors being different between the sexes of the same morph, well as far as I know, only Anery A and those morphs that include Anery A (e.g. Ghosts and Anery A Bloodreds, among others) look different. What is different is the males usually are much more pink than the females, though there are exceptions.

Charcoal (Anery B) may act in the same manner as Anery A, but I'm not very familiar with that gene.
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1.0 2001 Coral snow cornsnake
0.1 2002 Pastel Ghost poss Het Amelanistic cornsnake
1.1 2002 Bloodred cornsnakes
0.1 1998 Het Hypo, Het Caramel cornsnake
1.0 2000 Hypo Het Caramel cornsnake

I just read Kat's reply...yep, lavenders are also some that look different between the sexes too. I forgot them. The thing with them is that lavender males are consistently much lighter than the females. As far as hypo lavenders, I think the males are more pink/orange than females (again I'm not as familiar with these guys as other morphs.)
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alstiver@hotmail.com

1.0 2001 Coral snow cornsnake
0.1 2002 Pastel Ghost poss Het Amelanistic cornsnake
1.1 2002 Bloodred cornsnakes
0.1 1998 Het Hypo, Het Caramel cornsnake
1.0 2000 Hypo Het Caramel cornsnake

Thanks. I am not sure what color I am going to get yet since so many incredible clors so this is good to know.
Lia