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Am I crazy???

A good example is I am looking at getting a hypo diffused stripe here soon (hopefully), if not bloodred.

The particular snake I am looking at in this guy's collection is het anery (100%). I really want this particular one, because my original goal was to breed Cruella to another snake that could produce anery's (not just normals) and in the future with follow up breedings and breeding back into the line, the diffused and striped gene.

So since Cruella is an Anery and the snake I am looking at is 100% het for Anery, I could expect a certain percentage of babies to be Anery with babies being 100% het anery, poss. het hypo, diffused and stripe.

Hope I explained that well. I have been trying to do my studying per the lessons taught by many here, haha.
 
If paired with the right snake, yes.

For instance, if Venus was paired with an amel, anery, stripe or diffused corn, you may see said type babies. Maybe, I have NO CLUE on percentages so someone else will have to chime in there. And hopefully I didn't supply you with poor info...
 
Het (heterozygous) means that those are genes they carry but you can't see. Possible het means that mom and/or dad carry those genes so they have a possibility of carrying them as well. Since there are no plans to breed that girl than those really don't mean much for her but it is useful information at the same time.

anery aka black albino - http://iansvivarium.com/morphs/species/elaphe_guttata/anerythristic/

diffused - http://iansvivarium.com/morphs/species/elaphe_guttata/diffused/

Like I have explained to my husband to try and help him understand. His parents have brown hair and brown eyes. My husband has blond hair blue eyes. His parents obviously carry the genes for blond hair and blue eyes even tho they do not express the gene themselves which is how they made a baby with blond hair blue eyes.
 
Join the club Lori... I have been that way for weeks reading online. Careful, it's another addiction in itself... my wife isn't going to know what hit her or what kind of monster her husband turned into when I start breeding. All from one damn cornsnake... LOL.

Also, Christen, that explanation helped me even more. Good stuff. Good basis for understanding this stuff for sure.
 
Sindrik8x said:
The Het essentially means that your corn can possibly have the genes to produce those different morphs if bred to another corn with the same hets. It may not. Sometimes there are percentages like 33, 66, 100, etc. My understanding thus far is if there is no percentage odds are typically lower??? Not a 100% clear on that though.
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Lowest you can go is 50% ;)

50% het means that only one parent has the gene so the baby only has a 50% chance of getting it. 66% het means that both parents carry the gene so the baby has a 66% chance of getting the gene. 100% means that the baby definitely has the gene either because mom or dad visually expressed that gene or because it has been proven through breeding trials.

For example if a snake is 50% het amel and it is bred to an amel and in those babies you get amel babies. Then you have proven that your snake is in fact 100% amel and no longer 50%

Did I help at all? Or did I just make that more cornfusing?
 
Close. The percent # refers to the chance that the snake has a given het, a 100% het means that the snake in question for sure has that het and can produce babies showing or just carrying the gene, depending on what it's bred to. A possible het with a different percent, like 66% or 50% is just the chance that that particular snake has that gene.

Say, for example the KSB I have for sale at the moment. He is 100% het for Anery and if he was paired with an Anery female, they would have mostly Anery babies and about 25% Normal babies. All the normal babies would be 100% het for Anery just like the dad.
 
I wont be breeding Venus, since she has tiny kinks.. but yah, I'm sure I got great information!! (Got her from Christen!!) lol.. She is just gorgeous, and we already love her so much!!! She is adjusting well, in her little temporary hideout!

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lorlor54 said:
Ohh, ok. Pewters are simply diffused charcoals, correct??
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That is correct. That is why if you bred Petri with a snow, you would get all normals (provided no hets matched up). This is because a snow is anery and amel and Petri is charcoal and diffused. So no genes match up to make anything other than normals. The genes have to match.

Sindrik8x said:
Join the club Lori... I have been that way for weeks reading online. Careful, it's another addiction in itself... my wife isn't going to know what hit her or what kind of monster her husband turned into when I start breeding. All from one damn cornsnake... LOL.

Also, Christen, that explanation helped me even more. Good stuff. Good basis for understanding this stuff for sure.
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I am glad it helps. It is actually very simple once you get the basics down. One day it will just click and you will be a pro.

lorlor54 said:
My son is seriously considering Herpetology now, and genealogy!
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It is very interesting and exciting.
 
wowowow! It makes better sense now!! I can see how the 'mad scientist' affect can come into play!! LOL..
 
It's kind of like Christen, Tavia and the rest of ya'll are raising school agers yourselves teachin' us youngins'! Lol.

But, seriously you two have been beyond helpful in being patient while we play 100 questions, haha.
 
Christen said:
Lowest you can go is 50% ;)

50% het means that only one parent has the gene so the baby only has a 50% chance of getting it. 66% het means that both parents carry the gene so the baby has a 66% chance of getting the gene. 100% means that the baby definitely has the gene either because mom or dad visually expressed that gene or because it has been proven through breeding trials.

For example if a snake is 50% het amel and it is bred to an amel and in those babies you get amel babies. Then you have proven that your snake is in fact 100% amel and no longer 50%

Did I help at all? Or did I just make that more cornfusing?
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And just to expanded the breeding 100% het. If you breed a normal to an amel. You will get all normals het amel because one of the parents visually expressed the amel gene.
 
Here is a question: if breeding a creamsicle with another corn will all babies be rootbeers regardless of the other corns morph?
 
Well yes. Kind of a complicated question to he honest. A cremecicle is a hybrid. So yes breeding one to a corn would just make more hybrids. Even if you were to make, say lavender hybrid from that pairing it would still be a hybrid. So it wouldn't be considered a lavender corn. However someone would probably come up with a new name for a snake with that make up.
 
Yes, because a rootbeer is actually a hybrid, any other species' in the mix is a hybrid, even if it's just a little bit. A creamsicle is an Amel rootbeer.
 
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