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OMG! I'm a mom!

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anankae

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Just when I was certain I had done everything wrong and they weren't going to hatch, I find this. Sorry about the bad shot, baby pulled back into the egg when I tried to sneak a couple.

It's a normal isn't it? With my luck, the breeder will have been wrong about the het on the male and they'll all be normals. Bunch of the eggs went bad tho, not expecting all of them to hatch.
 

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Wish I could edit rather than make a new post. If the male is not het caramel, then they're all going to be motleys. And now I'm thinking that's what this looks like.

I'm overthinking and I'll go away now.
 
Congrats Mama! I think you'll need to get more pics when the little 'uns venture out further, before we can have a guess at the morph. Can't really tell from that too-cute snout!
 
I can't wait to see him out! I had 1 caramel hatch, I didn't know both parents where het :) . His nose "looked" normal but he is very brown no red at all.
Congrats!
 
Five now, and 2 are amels, 3 are dark. So I do have some interesting morphing action going on. This is kind of exciting.
 

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It's so exciting to see the little noses!! Next year I will have 7 mature females so I can't wait!
 
I should say. Female is a sunglow motley het caramel. Male is a cube stripe. Asked the breeder for his lineage, breeder didn't recall but asked for a picture. From his coloration, he thinks he's het for caramel. His coloration is terra cotta, which could be an influence from a caramel gene (it's hard to get a true color picture of him, the flash brightens him almost as orange as the female). The male is a monster, last time I weighed, he was 900g. Female last time I weighed was 495g. She's got a retained egg so she's getting small meals until it passes through.
 
Got 10 more going. There are the dark ones and the red ones, and there's this one. Is this a snow? And I know it's hard to tell with just noses, but it looks like there's more than one dark morph, at least one looks more reddish to me.
 

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runninghorsespirit said:
looks like a snow, amel and idk lol
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Mom's a motley sunglow so I'm expecting motley sunglows. Dad's a cube stripe, so they're all gonna be motleys.

Speaking of mom, she got real restless a couple days before the eggs started hatching. Not sure what's up with her, I put her lay box back in case she's trying to pass that retained egg. Other than that, no idea.

As for the hets, the breeder I got them from is one of the major corn snake breeders so I'm not surprised there are multiple hets. I suppose he didn't bother telling me what the hets were since I just wanted them for pets, so they prob didn't come out of his better breeding stock. /shrug No matter, they have produced spectactularly, AFAIC.
 
Overthinking again.

Been playing wtih the corn calculator. If that's a snow, they're both het anery. Since there are many amels, dad's also het amel. That would make the 4 morphs I'm seeing motley, anery, amel and snow. (Was NOT expecting anerys)

If the breeder is right and the male is also het for caramel, it makes things more complicated. But perhaps he's wrong and it's the het anery that's causing the dull orange colouration in the male.
 
Being het for anery has no influence on how the animal looks. My almost-a-sunglow is het for anery and there's certainly nothing dull about HIS coloring!
 
Shiari said:
Being het for anery has no influence on how the animal looks. My almost-a-sunglow is het for anery and there's certainly nothing dull about HIS coloring!
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Actually het can bleed through into the coloration. My female obviously shows no influence from the het anery either, but it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
 
anankae said:
Actually het can bleed through into the coloration. My female obviously shows no influence from the het anery either, but it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
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One thing I know about genetics is it's a really, really complicated study. It's not cut and dry at all.
 
anankae said:
Actually het can bleed through into the coloration. My female obviously shows no influence from the het anery either, but it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
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You're arguing genetics with one of the most knowledgeable people on the site, you know...
 
Nanci said:
You're arguing genetics with one of the most knowledgeable people on the site, you know...
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So true. Its like trying to argue to the sky that you're more blue than it is :sidestep: lol
 
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