After taking a break from snakes for about a year and a half, I got the urge to pick up a few more and quickly got tempted back into a corn project. I'm picking up where I left off-with specters and specter outcrosses. I'm glad to see some people are still working with these, but it seems no one has any F2s from crossing them with other morphs yet. Hopefully I'll have some specter motleys when I breed mine and I'm mulling over some other potential pairings that may be interesting.
Anyway, here are the new additions to get me back in the corn game. First up is a specter male. For those that don't know, specters are a line of unusual ghost corns that trace back to an unusual wild caught individual Kathy Love acquired in Naples, FL. They tend to have pink background coloration, though some don't (the non-pink individuals are sometimes referred to as banshees), and sometimes have yellow coloration in their dorsal saddles, but not always. Pattern aberrancies are also common in this line as well as thick black saddle borders. So there are a few interesting traits prevalent in this lineage, but they can be expressed independently of one another and their mode of inheritance is still uncertain.
This female is the result of breeding a specter to a ghost motley. She has just a touch of the yellow saddle coloration, but not nearly as obvious as some.
This boy is the offspring of a specter and a strawberry motley het for anery. Interestingly, he shows a fair amount of pink background coloration already and should be a colorful adult. Apparently the pink coloration can be expressed in some first generation outcrosses, but not all. I'll be interested to see what results from pairing him with other specter outcrosses.
Finally, here are two female siblings to the male above. At least one of them appears to be showing some pink coloration already, but it's very difficult to represent it accurately in photographs. I'm curious to see how they will develop as they mature.
These are all quick pictures taken just after I got them. I'll try to get some better shots soon and hopefully I'll have a few new additions to add in the near future as well.
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