Het Markers

Is there a such thing as het markers with cornsnakes?

I have a Caramel Motley het Hypo pos.het Anery Stripe. What I'm trying to find out (most importantly) is whether she is 100% het Stripe.

The male I intend on breeding her to is an Amber Stripe het Amel


What does everyone think?

Here she is:

Only way to find out 100% is to breed her to a stripe or known het stripe and find striped babies.

Other than that I'd so no on pattern markers like striped

Generally I don't think there is a het stripe marker. However, when it is possible het stripe with motley involved there could be something showing, since they are on the same locus. But even then it is not a sure thing, particularly since motley is generally dominant to stripe, so you can have a perfectly motley snake actually be a motley/stripe....or you could have a motley with lots of elongated stripe pieces just be motley.

I would go ahead and do that breeding with the amber stripe. It should be a good way to prove whether your caramel motley is just motley or motley/stripe.

Looking at just the motley and stripe gene of these 2 you would see the following circumstances:

If your caramel is just motley (mm) x stripe (ss) = 100% motley/stripe (ms)

If your caramel is motley/stripe (ms) x stripe (ss) = 50% motley/stripe (ms), 50% stripe (ss)

Either way you will still get nice patterns out of the babies.

My het blood has a grey head and a mostly clear belly

I figured there would not be any known het markers discovered! But I had to ask.

I hope she is a motley/stripe

A lot of people believe, (myself one of them) that being het for Caramel shows up in the snake carrying it. Increasing yellow levels on the belly and more to levels above normal. But that's the only one I know of that shows while het.