Candy Canes

Originally Posted by Twolunger

Thanks for the edit. While I sure don't want to line breed good amels for 25 years I do want to produce some nice Candy Canes before I get senile, or more senile than I am already. What I want to know is if there is another morph, or combination of morphs, to whiten the background. While checking out the classifieds on Fauna I came across an ad on 10-13 for high white extreme reverse Okeetees. The gentleman showed a picture of a male he called a high white Ultramel that looked pretty sweet. While it wasn't a perfect white background, it is obvious that he didn't spend 25 years to develop that morph. There has to be a way to produce high white clean backgrounds, especially since there are several morphs available to us now, like charcoal and cinder. I'd like to know who is using other morphs to produce a white background, assuming they want to share the info. It shouldn't be a secret, since Candy Canes won't surpass Palmettos or even the scaleless on the list of expensive corns. I do want to thank MysticExotics for sharing her info. While I never had any Whiteouts, it's obvious that a combination such as the one that produces them may be useful, but my knowledge of genetics in very limited.

Sorry, but no, I didn't come across any shortcuts to my perfect ideal of a Candy Cane. Honestly, I would not have pursued anything from the Okeetee line, since that line tends to produce sometimes extremely attractive examples of corn snakes with brilliant orange backgrounds. I would have considered that a step backwards. The "reverse" Okeetees referred to the white borders around the blotches in an Amelanistic, that would normally be black in a non-amelanistic, and had nothing to do with the background color being whiter than normal.

I think you may need to look for INDIVIDUALS, and not LINES for your project.