Actually this is going to be a message about ancestry... Nobody seemed to be posting any new threads so I figured I wold just post for the hell of it. Well my general question is this... There are only 3-4 types of naturally occuring corns correct? So how is it that now we have about 75-100 morphs....? THIS IS NOT A GENETICS QUESTION! My question is... if there are so many hidden genetics why is it that we don't ever see any of these morphs in the wild? I know that the odds of a normal corn that is het for amel has a 5 billion to one chance of meeting a snake that is het for something else in the wild. But the question is, were these original animals wild caught that displayed these "weird" characteristics or is it just a pattern breeders bagan to see over time? because Corns are the most diverse species i've ever seen. Thanks again all!
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Children of the corn!
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Some were actually caught in the wild showing the strange coloring which has developed into the names we have (lavender, snow, etc...) while others were simply "mistakes" in breeding. I'm sure you've seen the golden corn on here that a poster caught in the wild last summer. This corn is shiny gold! We are waiting to see if this gold will reproduce. This could possibly be another natural morph we didn't know about until now. (I think that if it is found to be genetic, it should be called the Midas line. lol.)
So some have been found in the wild, some are mistakes. Simple as that. Recently over on a green tree python forum, some rare gtps were bred, and one hatched jet black patternless with a red unerbelly. (this is something that has never been seen before.) Quite posibly a new type of gtp!
It's a never ending change of colors you find out there! You also have to realize that out of all the females they lay on average 14 eggs a clutch, you may have 2 that make it to adulthood. the others could be god only knows what colorings we dont know about!
One reason I want to stay in this, i'm excited on what new morphs will be discovered!
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-Chris
0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat
1.0 Black Rat
0.1 Vietnamese Blue Beauty
1.0 Green Tree Python
0.1 Texas Bairds Rat
The educated are the few. The uneducated are the masses.
"My question is... if there are so many hidden genetics why is it that we don't ever see any of these morphs in the wild?"
Oh they are out there. Not common by any means, but take a look back at some of the pictures of BlueKing's wild caught Golden Cornsknake that he found in North Carolina. An absolute thing of beauty, and looks just like a captive bred morph. On the lines of an Amber or Carmel type corn.
Steve
