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My yearling Coral Snow. Keeps getting more colorful with each shed.

I was just curious because I thought to be a snow it must lack true red coloring and also black coloring. But that one seems to be having more red than just the underlying blood vessels. I know you call it a coral snow, I am just wondering who is breeding those.

There are several people breeding these. It is still a snow it just has an iregular amount of red pigment.
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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"

OK..what makes it a coral snow?.....

what the heck is that thing??????????????????????
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...any cornsnake homozygous for both anerythristic and amelanistic genes. Other influences can affect the colors producing coral snows, pink and green snows, yellow and white snows, or the pink and white snow look. All of these are snows.

Coral snows (atleast some of them) are also homozygous for hypomelanism type A. Somehow this interaction causes a brighter and pinker coloration to show.

-Kat
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>>My yearling Coral Snow. Keeps getting more colorful with each shed.
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That is a beauty.
As Kat mentioned, the hypomelanism combined with amelanism and anerythrism brings out the "coral" coloration and makes an exceptionaly colored snow.
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Sorry I am not buying it. A snow equals a double recessive trait- an albino anerythristic. Albino no black, anery no red. Looks like a faded amel. Funny no one has mention the parents or the originator of this strain but geneticly it does not add up. Just my opinion base on experience.