AlbinoRedBoy
Lover of Corns
Ive heard there is a purple and black corn and maybe a blue and black corn... are these truth or rumors? The girl at the pet store was telling me about them
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Rumor or Truth
- Thread starter AlbinoRedBoy
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Joejr14
Grand Bubble Burster
She's an idiot.
ghosthousecorns
Well-known member
LOL maybe she was exaggerating, it made me think of lavenders and dilutes (once known as blue motley IIRC)...? Pet store employees will say just about anything, though.
Offer to buy it, price is no object, and let's see what happens.....
KJUN
Well-known member
Remember that no 2 people ever see colors the same way. "Blue motley" corns have never looked blue to me, and "green snows" look more like nicotine stained teeth yellow that green. She may have been honestly describing the way some babies looked to HER....but nobody else in the world would necessarily use those, um, same color descriptions.
I always say, that when it comes to snakes, everyone in the world is colorbline except me, and I am color blind, too..........lol.
I always say, that when it comes to snakes, everyone in the world is colorbline except me, and I am color blind, too..........lol.
Eli173
New member
I really am color blind!! LOL. This reminds me of a game I played as a kid. Operator or something or something like that? Anyways, one person would tell something to the person next to them, that would get passed around a circle until it got back to the first person and at that point it was always distorted into something way different. Ahhh memories... 
Drizzt80
Dakota Corns
. . . What?! Bobby got his first chest hair?? :shrugs:This reminds me of a game I played as a kid. Operator or something or something like that? Anyways, one person would tell something to the person next to them, that would get passed around a circle until it got back to the first person and at that point it was always distorted into something way different. Ahhh memories...
D80
Eli173
New member
LOL! For example, if the first person said "Bobby got a chest hair" to the person next to them, it would then get passed around the circle but by the time it got to the last person it would be twisted to something like "Mommy wants to be mayor". I thought everyone played that game... :dunce:
Basically someone probably described a corn they saw to someone who told someone else, etc, etc, and by the time it got to the girl at the pet store the story got twisted into a black and purple snake. :spinner:
Basically someone probably described a corn they saw to someone who told someone else, etc, etc, and by the time it got to the girl at the pet store the story got twisted into a black and purple snake. :spinner:
kimbyra
cornsnake addict
Babies were mentioned, and that is probably where she got this purple/black, blue/black idea. I once was in a pet store and the employee just LOVED the burgundy ones. I told him, they don't stay that way, they turn orange. I don't think he believed me, though I don't he's ever seen anything but normal, amel, and snow hatchlings there.
Drizzt80
Dakota Corns
I'm very aware of the game. There's a new commercial from Oreo, in a school lunch room, where the buzz is about some new Oreo treat, that ends with one student saying out loud "Bobby got a new chest hair?" and the response from another student is "So what, Billy has the new Oreo Twists." Kinda takes away the funny factor when you have to explain it. S'okay.
D80
SnakesRule1234
New member
Why did I just think of Carlos Mencia?
Sorry, but I just HAD to.
Ha Ha Ha! Good one, I'll have to go with this answer:
Drizzt80
Dakota Corns
Even weirder is the fact that I don't watch that much TV, but making the reference like I did probably makes it seem like it's all I do!Oh man, I just saw that Oreos comercial last night and boy do I feel foolish. I never thought the day would come when I felt like I didn't watch enough tv... :crazy02: O'well, hopefully you all got a good laugh at my expense.
D80
FunkyRes
New member
LOL - my lavender Cal King looked mor pink than purple or lavender to me.
My lavender motley corn also does not qualify as "lavender" to my eyes - I think Mocha is a much better description of the morph.
KJUN
Well-known member
Sounds like both of them are still babies, right? If so, wait a year or two before making a decision.
Plus, lavender motley corns - like hypo lavenders - are often more pink that the founding lavender mutation.
FunkyRes
New member
Sounds like both of them are still babies, right? If so, wait a year or two before making a decision.
One pairing was in 2006 - 5 hatchlings. I held back two, and know where two of the others are.
Some are bright yellow banded like mom - some are dull cream banded like dad. None are inbetween. Some have webbed banding like dad (one even heavier than dad) - some are cleaner banded like mom. Some are a medium brown base color like dad - some are a deep black like I assume (yes, assume) mom would be if she wasn't amel.
At hatching - they all pretty much looked the same.
The second pairing I'm talking about is from 2007 - and they all take after their dad. Very dark base color, two tone cream bands that are bone white down the spine and turn yellow at the bottom third of the bands (as they near the belly). Mother was a uniform off-white banding.