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Oddball creature.......

Rich Z

Rich Z

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The interesting thing about this one is that the body appears to be hypomelanistic yet the head is definitely amelanistic.

Surprisingly enough this one seems to be a survivor. Some problems getting the first shed off, but it's OK now. Also feeds real well, so I'm hopefull this one will continue to thrive.
 
At frist glance, that odd ball doesn't look that odd...but after you take a second look at it, it's totally weird....and I like it a lot too!! LoL....I wonder what it's going to be called when this proves to be a trend......amel hypo?
 
That's awesome, does anyone know how that works?? An amel Hypo? That's a corn with a bit of black and no black all at the same time? It's gotta be some sort of mistake! Is there any hope of a new cultivar?
 
Heck, I have to check to see what that animal looks like these days. I turned it over to my wife to take care of because I was afraid I would neglect it with all of the stuff going on around here during show season. It appeared fragile. Had trouble shedding from the start, and even though it was a good feeder, it appeared to have a fast metabolism and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to feed it often enough to keep it going. Some smaller babies are like that. You have to feed them every four days or they will just fail to thrive.

She hasn't told me it died, so I assume it is still alive. At least I hope so.
 
Rich,

if you have time, try taking another shot at that weird oddball.
it might have changed colors dramatically....and it might even look more bazzar than the old pic~
 
Rich, don't forget to post a picture of that beauty! I can't wait to see what she looks like.

Is she for sale?
 
hey rich if you get time,can you post an updated pic of the little guy,


also did you have pic of a corn hatchling eating another hatchling ??? would like to see that again
 
Very very odd... And very neat. :) I hope it's heritable. That could be a very interesting morph to play with. (I wonder if you could use it to produce ghost-snows?)

-Kat
 
You know, I've been thinking about that animal quite a bit lately (shows how important MY thinking has become, Huh?). What if it is a tyrosinase positive animal with an incomplete distribution of the amelanism? That is found in other animals ona semi-frequent basis. What if it has now erupted into cornsnakes?

If it turned out to be so, it would be another form of amelanism that would be indistinguishable from the first one and incompatible with it as well. Wait a minute . . .maybe that wouldn't be as coold as I first thought!


:eek:
 
Actually I have gotten several odd looking specimens from that bloodline. A couple of years ago I had the entire group of adults marked as being on surplus because nothing extraordinary had come from them and I really didn't need to keep them around. Fortunately the interesting results showed up before I had gotten rid of them all, but I did sell of some before I realized there was a joker in the deck.

I am amazed at the number of really interesting animals I have gotten from adults that I ALMOST got rid of.

Makes me scared to death to get rid of anything lately....
 
Hey Rich,

I know your really busy and all but....any chance of seeing an updated pic of this animal? I bet it has changed a lot since that pic.

L8r,
wc
 
Hah!

There are a LOT of things I want to get updated photos of, but probably won't happen. I am steeling myself to tackle the work room so I can blaze a path to the milling machine. I need to make up some more of those deli cup water dishes before the babies hatch out and this "free" time I have now evaporates.

The work room isn't TOO bad, I guess. I can still see the milling machine, so at least I don't have to find it first. :rolleyes:

<img src ="http://www.cornsnakes.com/pics/mill04.jpg">
 
Actually, I'm not sure if that one still survives. I had several oddballs from that year, and I recall one of them died at about 3 years of age. Not sure if it was this one or another. Since this one hatched out in 2002, I would think I would have bred it if it were still around. But I did get rid of that entire stock this came out of......
 
Hope that guys still around some where. Think of what that would look like if it could be reliably bred and combined with some other morphs. lavender and anery come to mind. Oh and how about cinder

It almost looks like he's got some extra skin, if you know what i mean, with all those folds in his curves. I've seen creases plenty, but never folds like that.:shrugs:
 
tbtusk said:
Hope that guys still around some where. Think of what that would look like if it could be reliably bred and combined with some other morphs. lavender and anery come to mind. Oh and how about cinder

It almost looks like he's got some extra skin, if you know what i mean, with all those folds in his curves. I've seen creases plenty, but never folds like that.:shrugs:
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The creases are just because he was having trouble with his first shed. That went away with subsequent sheds. I'm doing an inventory of all my animals right now, so maybe he will turn up somewhere.......
 
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