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Dappled Corn Snakes (Striped Leopard Motley)

ghosthousecorns

ghosthousecorns

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Well, the story behind these is that in 2022 I purchased a pair of "Leopard Motleys" from Cleo's Kingdom Colubrids, grew them up and paired them early this year (2024). To my surprise, 6 of the babies were striped. These striped ghost babies were different than any striped ghosts I have produced before or seen, they resemble sunkissed striped more than anything due to the way their stripe is like a single dorsal line of spots. I contacted Laura who I bought them from and she had not gotten any stripes in her pairings, so I believe one of her snakes was het stripe and I got lucky and picked a pair of which both carried the hidden het.
I played with the idea of calling them "Tiger Corn" but it looks like someone is using that name for buf okeetee. I did not want to keep saying striped leopard motley as these are not motley but stripe. I think the name "Dappled Corn" describes them well.
I will be testing them with other stripes, motleys, etc as they get old enough- in the near future I will try pairing their sire with a stripe female see what happens.
The first 6 photos are the original 6 dappled ghosts I got in the clutch, next are progression photos of the 3 I held back :)
 

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These are photos of a leopard motley sibling and of the parents of this clutch.
 

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Just thought I would update this post to the current situation. This year I bred the male motley leopard sire to a completely unrelated stripe. Results were 9 regular looking motleys, 1 "leopard" type motley, and 5 of these stripes- 3 anery and 2 ghost.
While they varied they all had at least some dorsal markings. This seems to suggest that whatever is giving the stripes this look is an incomplete dominant? gene or something like that is going on. I am curious if these outcrossed ones would still yield the same results if bred to another unrelated stripe...The original pairing was also repeated and those are about to hatch too. Also both girls laid bonus 2nd clutches so like they say can't have too much of a good thing right?
 

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Motley is so weird! The amount of variation in that single mutation, it's allelic but dominant relationship to Stripe, and what it does in combo with other mutations... I think there is more to Motley than we suspect :).
 
SnakeSmithS said:
Motley is so weird! The amount of variation in that single mutation, it's allelic but dominant relationship to Stripe, and what it does in combo with other mutations... I think there is more to Motley than we suspect :).
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I am having the issue of owning zero female snakes that have NO motley and NO stripe. Even the one I thought I could use proved to be het motley this year. So unfortunately I am mudding up the genes even more lol. Not to mention I still have to test against sunkissed. And see what tessera does in the mix.
Ultimately though I am low key considering looking for a buyer for this entire project- It would consist of the original pair, the 6 I held back last year, plus the babies from this year. While I am excited about having a possible new mutation, I feel a bit daunted by the amount of snakes I would need to keep to prove this out and it would mean abandoning all my other corn snake projects to focus on this one. I will likely wait until they all hatch and then decide.
 
I agree that in the absence of genetic fingerprinting (which hopefully is coming soon), testing this potential mutation against Motley and Stripe in a thorough traditional "test-breeding" scheme is quite daunting. Given the previously mentioned allelic but dominant relationship between Motley and Stripe you would definitely need access to corns with full details on their Hets (possessed and 100% sure about what is not possessed).

I know exactly what you mean about not wanting to abandon any projects. I have 5 really interesting, potentially new things hiding in my snake room, but I still keep finding new projects I want to tackle. I can't imagine giving up on any of those projects right now, but at some point I have to quit expanding, or win the lottery lol!
 
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