CB 2018 Candy Cane Tessera.

So, if you look at this snake, you can see how clean he is, and still, I'm not labeling him as a "candycane," because I got burned by how a really nice candycane-appearing hatchling eventually developed. If you search on here for "candycane tessera," you'll find a couple of his offspring. I didn't even sell those as candycanes. You don't want your customers to be disappointed down the line when the snake develops a ton of color.

Originally Posted by Frank Pinello

Beauty of a amelanistic tessera but .......it doesn't look like a candycane version of a amelanistic to me. Matter of fact it looks like it will gain much more red/orange in his background as he matures.

I have to agree with this assessment. I have raised up a boatload of Candy Cane Corns over the years, and the marker I found most relevant to how the background color was going to turn out was the amount of orange coloration along the dorsal area immediately behind the head. The further down the spine the orange coloration extended, and the more intense it was as a hatchling, the more overall background orange coloration the snake would have as an adult.

I'm not saying this is an absolutely infallible method, but it was pretty darn accurate, with NO exceptions that I can recall.