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Hi there,
so, since I'm getting into the breeding of corn snakes, I'd love to know some of your thoughts on some of the more popular morphs! Thank you to all!

Questions I have are:

What is the recently most-popular Corn morph?

What genetics do Scaleless Corns have to have? Is it a mutation that just occurs (Like the double-head mutation), or a morph that can be bred with the right snakes?

What the heck is a Palmetto Corn, and why can't everyone have one?! LOL, they are amazing!

Should I invest in breeding corn snakes to have and sell?

Thank you!!! Sorry if this is a little annoying...

Popular, but less common morphs include: Many of the sunkissed combos, pied-sided bloodreds, and palmettos.

Scaleless corns are hybrids. The scaleless mutation is a simple recessive gene, like most corn snake morphs.

Palmetto is a type of incomplete leucistic. They are being carefully controlled so as to not crash the market for them.

You will most likely not make money by breeding corns. You will, in fact, be lucky to break even any given year. You also need to have money set aside in case of health problems, especially for females, such as egg binding. You also have to be prepared to house dozens and dozens of baby corn snakes until they sell, and that can take a long time. I still have some 2013s.

Thank you!

What needs to be done to breed Palmettos? Are they something you can breed for with certain snakes, or is it one you'd need to buy straight from a truly super professional breeder? I do understand it is a single trait that is recessive to normal traits, so how has it been bred?

It is like any other morph. You must have a male and a female that carry at least one copy of the gene to get offspring that show the trait. The original snake was wild-caught and homozygous for palmetto. That snake was bred to several females, creating normals het palmetto. Then those normals were bred together to make more palmettos.

sunkist, snow, and blood combos seem to be popular and the plain amel is always popular. my personal fav are lavenders though.

scaleless corns are hybrids and I personally dont care for any of the scaleless animals... i'm all for morphs, but not morphs that negatively impact the animal.

If you got tons of corns and a great reputation you might make some money, most years you'll about break even though. I breed small numbers of corns, kings, milks, and boas and have done carpets, balls, garters, and rats int he past. granted I only ever produce a max of about 150 babies a year and dont let many females produce if I have plenty of previous year's babies, but there have only been maybe 5 years in the past 16 that I really made a good bit of money. most years i'm 1-2k over or under what I spent that year. thankfully it's just a hobby and not a job for me.