may have yet ANOTHER hidden gene in last years clutch!

well in another thread, someone suggested that my "Anery A," Winifred, may, in fact, be a ghost. i didn't think our luck was anywhere near that good, as we had already lucked out by finding out our normal was het snow, and our anery A was het amel.

well, they may ALSO be het hypo!

here are the photos from the original thread showcasing the difference between these clutchmates, who i originally believed to both be "Anery A's," though wildly different:


This is Winifred


and this is KO

i now believe that Wini is in fact a hypo.

related: this weekend i went for a visit to my friends house, roughly 3 hours away. last year we sold her one of our hatchlings, a cute little snow!

yesterday was my first time seeing the snake, "Ichabod" in nearly 8 months, and HOLY SPINOLLI! what a little BEAUTY!

when i first saw him yesterday, i was ABSOLUTELY blown away by his magnificent pinks! he actually looks more of a "tangerine" color in real life. unfortunately i didn't have my DSLR with me, so these photos are from my point and shoot which doesn't give me too much control over lighting and exposure, but this was the best i could do.







i know most of them are overexposed. the last photo is actually almost spot-on to his "true colors" now is it just me, or does he look like a Coral Snow to anybody else?

he weighs about 50 grams now, and he hatched last April. he will definitely be involved in breeding trials ASAP!

oh great, now i've been browsing around trying to figure out what i should test-breed him to? LOL!

IMO, don't get your hopes up too much about Winifred being a ghost. Her saddle bands are a distinct black, which is un-ghost-like, and I've had many known anerys that were her color and lighter. Was she hatched looking much lighter than her anery siblings, or did the color lighten up with passing sheds? If she was dark at hatching and lightened up with age, that is another indication she is probably not a ghost. Yes, I've seen very dark ghosts as well, but even some of those I've questioned. You need to test breed with a known hypo to know for sure.

Looks like my darkling whose eyes are the same as yours and I have been told Anery As have DARK eyes. I have also noted the saddle boarders on mine lighten with each shed and are how more a blackish brown than actual black, has this happened with yours? Are the belly checks not true black? Hypo will effect the belly check color as well as the boarders on the saddles. Anywho I have been told time and again that anery As have the darkest eyes of the gray/black corn morphs. Yours does NOT have dark eyes. which tells me charcoal or ghost, more likely ghost.

Please note I am just going by what I have been told on here.

Carnivorous: Charcoals have DARK eyes, not aneries. Remember all those photos I linked you of charcoals with almost solid black eyes?

Winifred looked like all the other aneries when she hatched. The reason I chose her as the only holdback wasn't because of her color, but the fact that her saddles are almost completely perfect the whole way down.

What about the snow though, I know the pictures aren't the best, but in real life he seems to be VERY colorful for a regular ol snow.

Now we play the waiting game; gots to find me a nice hypo in the meantime

I forgot to mention, my friend with the dark anery, KO also has the only other snow that hatched. I haven't seen it in a few months, but when I did, there wasn't any amazing colors that were popping out at me. Makes me even MORE excited!

Have you seen this for the snows?



Link if the piccy doesn't work: http://www.cornsnakes.net/photogallery_showpic.php?pgID=862&uType=Update&framewidth=1142&frameheight=37&res=&wOpt=

Heres a ghost..







A very pink snow.. I don't know if its hypo or even het hypo... But I doubt it..



I am partial with Susan, I would not get my hopes up that your male is hypo, as the variaence between anery's can drastically vary...

Male Adult Hypo A..




Yet another Hypo Adult Male ( A crimson, Hypo A )