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The Cultivars (morphs)/Genetics IssuesDiscussions about genetics issues and/or the various cultivars for cornsnakes commercially available.
Hey, so I'm still not very savvy when it comes to identifying various corn snake morphs so I wanted to get some thoughts on one of my adult females. She was a PetCo find and I got her as a baby and I have always thought of her as a normal/wild type. As she grew she seemed to have less and less pattern and got deeper and deeper red in color, like what I think of as diffused/bloodred. The odd thing to me is her belly pattern, which still has the black and white checkers towards her head but about halfway down her belly is like this tomato orange color. When I breed her, her "normal" babies do the same thing. I'm not a photographer, but I am adding some pictures below to illustrate what I mean. The first 2 are of one of her babies (she was bread to an anery with no hets that I am aware of). This is how she looked when I got her. The second 2 are of one of her yearlings (same paring) and the last 3 are of her. So again, newbie to genetics here just looking for an expert opinion. Thanks!
I have no idea how to differentiate between red coat and red factor visually, but the fact that she had babies with a similar appearance makes me think red factor (because it's dominant, right?).
The way it's always been described to me is that red coat is a top coating of red pigment which can mask some of the markings whereas red factor pumps up the reds in the background.
Interesting that you say she looked pretty normal when she was small, I would expect redcoat and red factor to be more obvious at that age? Do you have any baby pics of her from around the time you got her?
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