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GRIMJIM

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Hi all.
I've been reading about genetics today. I'm half understanding it but it's rather confusing.
It got me wondering what genes my own snake could be carrying.
She is an anery, ‎ I know that her dad was an anery and I think her mum was an albino. But obviously I don't know what genes they were carrying either.
‎ I don't know if I would ever breed her in the future but I thought it would be interesting to put her against other morphs on the corn calculator but I don't understand it and obviously I don't know what genes she's carrying.
‎ I don't really know what I'm asking here to be honest, but any inputs appreciated.

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If the mom was an amel, then your snake is heterozygous for amelanism.

The most common hidden hets for a corn snake to carry are: hypo, amel, anery, or motley. To find out about any hidden genes, you'd have to test breed against a snake that is carrying those genes for sure.
 
Shiari said:
If the mom was an amel, then your snake is heterozygous for amelanism.

The most common hidden hets for a corn snake to carry are: hypo, amel, anery, or motley. To find out about any hidden genes, you'd have to test breed against a snake that is carrying those genes for sure.
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Ok thanks. So if for instance I bred her with a normal that was also het for amel, some of the hatchlings would be amel?

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GRIMJIM said:
Ok thanks. So if for instance I bred her with a normal that was also het for amel, some of the hatchlings would be amel?

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"Could possibly be Amel" is the more accurate outcome. Every egg has a 25% chance of being Amel. So in a clutch of 4 eggs you could get all Normals Het for Anery PH or Het Amel or anywhere from 1 to 4 Amels Het Anery.

Terri
 
crackerhead said:
"Could possibly be Amel" is the more accurate outcome. Every egg has a 25% chance of being Amel. So in a clutch of 4 eggs you could get all Normals Het for Anery PH or Het Amel or anywhere from 1 to 4 Amels Het Anery.

Terri
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Ok. I think I'm getting it now. Cheers

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As an example, I bred an anery to a ghost. The ghost laid 15 eggs. Of those 15, a single snow popped out, showing both parents were actually het amel. In an ideal world I would have had 3 or 4 snows but real life has randomness and that's how I ended up with just 1.
 
Shiari said:
As an example, I bred an anery to a ghost. The ghost laid 15 eggs. Of those 15, a single snow popped out, showing both parents were actually het amel. In an ideal world I would have had 3 or 4 snows but real life has randomness and that's how I ended up with just 1.
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Oh ok. So het amel + het amel = ghost, not amel

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Shiari said:
As an example, I bred an anery to a ghost. The ghost laid 15 eggs. Of those 15, a single snow popped out, showing both parents were actually het amel. In an ideal world I would have had 3 or 4 snows but real life has randomness and that's how I ended up with just 1.
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Snow sorry not ghost

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Sorry. Ghost is hypo+anery, and when bred to another anery based animal ALL the babies will be anery based. If you add amel (removes black pigment) to anery (removes red pigment) you end up with a snow (white snake because it lacks black and red).

The part that relates to you is that I bred a snake that was het amel to another snake that was het amel and out of 15 eggs only got one baby that was visually an amel which shows that the 25% truly is *per egg* rather than per the whole.
 
Shiari said:
Sorry. Ghost is hypo+anery, and when bred to another anery based animal ALL the babies will be anery based. If you add amel (removes black pigment) to anery (removes red pigment) you end up with a snow (white snake because it lacks black and red).

The part that relates to you is that I bred a snake that was het amel to another snake that was het amel and out of 15 eggs only got one baby that was visually an amel which shows that the 25% truly is *per egg* rather than per the whole.
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So let's see if I've got this right...

My corn is an anery
Her dad was an anery
Her mum was an amel
So that means she would HAVE TO be an anery het amel?
Now the fact that she is an anery suggests that her mum must of been an amel het anery?
So there's a chance her Dad could also have been het for something (e.g motley)
Meaning that my anery corn would also have the slight chance (about 25%) of also being het for the same thing (E.g motley)

Making my snake
anery het amel 50% poss het motley ??
(for example)


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Basically correct. Any unknown hets that her parents had, she has a 50% chance of having as well.
 
Shiari said:
Basically correct. Any unknown hets that her parents had, she has a 50% chance of having as well.
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Cool cheers.
It's been a lot to wrap my head around lol, but I think it's starting to make sense now

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