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I crossed a creamsicle female with a hypo motley male. What should I expect?

creme x hypo motley

all normal looking babies........het amelanistic,hypomelanistic,and motley and all 25% great plains ratsnake(emoryi)....75% corn.

unless the "creme" isn't a 50% /50% creme (half corn,half emoryi)

people in here call them "rootbeers"......they would be triple het rootbeers........for amel,hypo and motley...

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I wouldn't be surprised if you got amels mixed in with your normal hatchlings. It's hard to find a cornsnake that isn't het for amel these days, unless the snake's been specifically tested for it.

The most common hets for cornsnakes are: Amel, Anery, Hypo, and Motley. Finding a corn that is proven NOT to carry any of these genes is rare.

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

from the first generation. I keep boas too and those traits can be seen in the babies if one of the parents have the trait??

Don't know about boas but with Corns, both parents have to be carrying a trait for it to show in F1. You'd only get Hypos and Motleys if your Creamsicle has hets for Hypo and Motley.

genetic traits come in a few different flavors. Some are simple recessive in which you get homozygous and heterozygous offspring when bred. The Het's in a recessive trait are all normal looking offspring but carry the abnormal gene. Other genetic traits are Co-Dominant in which when a homozygous animal is bred to a normal all the resulting het's show a visible difference from normals, there is no guessing which are het's, you can tell. One more type of genetic trait is a Dominant trait which means there are no het's it is either homozygous or normal. Examples of these traits in boa's are Albino is recessive, co-dom is salmon/hypo and i think motley but not sure if there has been a super motley produced yet, and dominant would be the arabasque. I believe all corn snake morphs are simple recessive (except blood red, correct me if i'm wrong). hope this helps. Josh Hutto

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2.1 het pied (RDR, alan bosch x 2)
1.0 het albino (ben siegel)
1.0 het citrus hypo(gulf coast line)
1.6 05 normal bp's
0.6 04 normal bp's
2.5 adult normal bp's (some need breeding to see if norm)
6 white eggs from pastel to norm breeding
4 various corns
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (alan bosch)
1.0 american pit bull terrior
1.1 taco dogs (ankle biters)
1.0 grey cat
1.1 bearded dragons

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>> I believe all corn snake morphs are simple recessive (except
>> blood red, correct me if i'm wrong). hope this helps. Josh Hutto

There are a few other codominant traits discovered so far. Stripe and Motley are on the same locus, but I think the codominancy is not 50/50. Also a quite new discovery is that the Ultra gene is codominant with Amel and when an ultra is bred to an amel, you will get 100% ultramels.

Hope this helps.
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Daniel Stephens
waynestephens@gmail.com

In cornsnakes, hypomelanistic and motley genes are both recessive to the wild-type gene. In other words, you need two copies of the gene to get it to express itself. The motley gene is co-dominant (or possibly dominant) to the stripe gene, so if you had a cornsnake that was het for motley, het for stripe you'd get a motley-ish patterend cornsnake.

The only gene in cornsnakes that so far appears to be somewhat co-dominant to the wild-type is the bloodred or 'diffusion' gene as some like to call it. Cornsnakes which are het for bloodred will sometimes have a partially plain belly.

Might I suggest you pick up a copy of the cornsnake morph guide, since you're unfamiliar with corn morphs and how the genetics are expressed?
Cornsnake Morph Guide

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

im not sure but probably

motley hypos
motley creamsicle
hypos
creamsicles
and maybe even a few normals

im just guessing sorry if im wrong
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my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
1 wc eastern milksnake (psycho)

after reding some other posts i realized im wrong but oh-well it seemed like the obvios answer to me, but im not a breeder yet
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my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
1 wc eastern milksnake (psycho)