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I have 6 snakes getting ready for spring mating. I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions on which ones I should breed to which. Heres what I have....keep in mind that I do not know the parents of these snakes
Hypo male
snow male
albino male
sunglow female
Type A anery female
albino female
I also have a black/white spots cali King female that I am going to try and cross breed.
Any suggestions would be great

There is nothing in the bunch that will produce anything spectacular. Personally, I would breed the male snow to both the anery and amel females. This will give you amels het anery and anerys het amel. breed the amel male to the sunglow female 100% amels/sunglows. That is the best combination I can think of. Good luck with whatever you decide.
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Onyx"

>>Hypo male
>>snow male
>>albino male
>>sunglow female
>>Type A anery female
>>albino female

I will leave the king snake out, I think you would probably do better getting another king snake for it. There are different morphs of kings aren't there? Get another morph and work towards that.

A couple of scenerios

Hypo male X anery female = this would yield all normals het anery het hypo. Breed these offspring together and you could get normals anerys and even a slight possibility of ghosts.

Snow male X amel (albino) female = this would yield 100% amels het anery. Breed these offspring together and you could get amels and snows.

Male amel x sunglow female = 100% amels. Sunglow is a selective bred amel.
In this case you could select the amels with the least amount of white to work towards your own sunglows.

OR

you could breed the snow to the anery.
This would give you all anerys het amel. breed these together and you could get anerys and snows.

Then switch the hypo over and breed it to the sunglow. This would yield all normals het amel het hypo. Breed these together and you could get normals, amels, hypos and amel/hypos which is another way people have produced sunglows.

And that would leave the amel male to amel female which would, of course,produce all amels.

The fun part is finding hidden hets. Without knowing the parents and the possible hets, the outcomes could be fun to watch. It is hard to get "common" morphs that aren't carrying some hets.

This is just a couple of scenerios as I see them and my general opinion.

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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if you have an amel isnt it safe to think it will just make more amels. i mean what could be hiding in a amel besides normal. i think normals from the petstore will get you good odds in seeing a hidden het. i know there has to be some people that have hets for something special in the normals they dont need and drop off at the pet shop.

>>if you have an amel isnt it safe to think it will just make more amels. i mean what could be hiding in a amel besides normal. i think normals from the petstore will get you good odds in seeing a hidden het. i know there has to be some people that have hets for something special in the normals they dont need and drop off at the pet shop.

well for one, let's say someone put a snow and an amel together.
The results would be amels...but these amels would all be het anery.
let's say someone put an amel and a butter together. Amels het carmel.
There are many more possibilities. They can show up in more then just F1 generations, too.
Amels are one of the most common morphs out there, if not the most common.
A lot of people's first time breeding projects involve amels or other more common morphs such as normals and anerys and combos such as snows.
A serious amount of amels, anerys and normals, which are the byproducts of breeding projects, are wholesaled out.
They end up in pet stores everywhere...lol

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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Ouch....my eyes!
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Onyx"

True that the common corn will be the most likely to have hidden hets. Although the amel and anery are both VERY likely to have hets also. The reason I say normals are most likely is because nobody really intentionally produces normals. 90% of the time they are just a biproduct of a pairing. And since nobody really wants them since they are "common" and not worth a lot they are just listed as normal and wholesaled.
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Onyx"