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Well I was looking for some bloodreds and saw some females. They had the corn below pictured and It doesnt look like a blood hatchling because I dont see the pale head. Plus the decription said bloodreds-Het pewters. So this snake is either a bloodred het pewter or a normal het pewter. which one is it? the image url says bloodred Female 05. Did they get something wrong? I posted this in the BP forum by accident

It could be, but I would need to see a belly shot to say more certainly.
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

looks blood

may be outcrossed? we can't tell........but it should be a good looking critter at least......

it has the reds

not all have the light head or silver head.......(some of mine had white heads and silver sides).....

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good luck..........
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I thought bloodred hatchlings are so dark they're almost black...

Go to www.moreptiles.com for some pics...

Walt

Here are a couple of photos of a more "classic" looking baby Blood Red Corn Snake...

Thanks,
Celia
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Celia Chien
www.ExoticsByNature.com

2006 Boa Constrictor Morphs Calendar
2006 Ball Python Morphs Calendar

The snake in that photo is in fact a Blood Red Corn Snake that is 100% Het. for Anerythristic Type "B" - therefore it is het. for Pewter. If it were a normal, it would be labeled as a "Normal Corn Snake DH (double het.) for Pewter".

Not ALL Blood Red Corn Snakes will have a light gray or silver colored head like JY mentioned. What you should really be checking is the stomach patterns to confirm that the animal is a Blood Red - which of course you can't see in the photo. The stomach on that particular animal as well as the other female Blood Red we have is white colored and mottled with absolutely no checkers.

Our babies are born with silver/gray coloration on their sides and sometimes heads, black outlining, and red coloration. As they grow, the black patterning and their darker coloration fades away and our adults are a solid deep red color. Sometimes the gray/silver on their heads disappears and sometimes it stays. The pattern on our adults are also fairly faded giving them a more solid red appearance as opposed to other Blood Red lines you may see that still have very bold patterns.

I hope this information helps.

Thanks,
Celia
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Celia Chien
www.ExoticsByNature.com

2006 Boa Constrictor Morphs Calendar
2006 Ball Python Morphs Calendar

Bloods vary a lot. Your picture shows some black on the saddles, not something on a prefect blood. Someone mentioned the belly. That should have NO mark marks. Sides are usually silver, and the head should be lighter. But the one I kept from the female linked below looked just a bit better than yours, and surprisingly she faded very nicely. The mom on the link passed after egg laying, and the 1 female I kept is free roaming my house unfortunately.

Nice snake, I'd call it a nice het maybe. Still a great snake.
Link

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Tom

www.herpzilla.com

the bloods I got 15 years ago were very pure and from "Mr Corn" himself..........right Rich.........and they had black markings on them....their kids did have it at times were silver at times etc etc.......the black fades away......on the adult female you could always see thin black lines across the edge of the saddles.....IF you looked...they were slight......if you were across the room all you saw was red...........dark red.......

blood reds are so variable .........and if they were outcrossed at all it gets more and more varied.....

....still didn't figure out if there is such a thing as "het blood"........the one girl I bred back to her amel blood daddy didn't lay good eggs.......I hate waiting another year........

why can't they lay a clutch a every 4 months?.........
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That's why you get an african house pair. They can breed every 60 days (I believe)
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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"

I guess..........

saw an aurora house this last weekend......cool.may look intot hem

did buy a tri-color hog female to start on them...they lay alot too........

already bred the trinket rats...got eggs every 45 days or so.......almost all year.......

...........I am STILL looking for hypo or albino trinkets or something to get???.but noone says if they exist?...
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