2015 Breeding Season

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YJ het Striped Sunkissed Lava Butter x RF Amel het Striped Snow Sunkissed

So what do you think? RF Amel, het RC? Are both RC and RF co-dominant? You help tell me.

This clutch will be an interesting remix: YJ Striped Butter x Sunkissed Lava X Striped Champagne x RC Sunkissed Lava het Amel.

The Striped Butter may have been a RC as well. The best Butters glow RC YJ.

 

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Striped Snow x RedCoat Motley het Striped Snow Lavender

I believe this male is a RC too. I thought he was a Striped Lava Lav, last year, but he proved to not be het for Lavender at all. He looks similar to a Striped Champagne, so I bred him to this female from the Striped Champagne line.

When you learn to recognize RC on the normal color of a Corn, then you can SEE it.

Lets say the target here is RC Striped Snows, AKA Striped Champagnes.

 

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Tessera het Pewter x Pewter het Lavender

I did my best to keep YJ out of this mix, but we will see. The normal colored Corns we get, will help tell the story.

Target: Tessera Pewters, and if they are light!:cheers: dark!:cheers:

Lets make them Masque as well.

 

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RedCoat Sunkissed Lava x RedCoat Sunkissed het Lava

RedCoat x RedCoat, we will see.

I have found RC in several lines. In the Lava line, this RC is traced to "Old Man Lava", a Red Lava male. I have also found it in the Sunkissed line. Both go back to Okeetees, so the same source?

 

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Tessera het Striped Amel Lava X Lava Motley het Snow

True genetics is predictable. This Tessera was purchased as a Tess het Striped Lava. Breeding last year, proved him to be het for Striped Amel.

When bred to this Lava Motley het for Snow, we will get Tessera Lava Motleys het for Striped. Phenotype: Tessera Lava Motley, Genotype: Lava M/S het Tessera.

I will take the Tessera Amel Motleys het Striped, or Tessera Amel Lava Motleys het Striped if they come too.

Tessera Motley: Single Pin-Stripe down back, very little side pattern.

 

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Striped Ice x Striped het Lava

Last one for the day. This happens sometimes. If I bred her again would it have helped? One breeding is all that you need, but you have to get it in the right week.

It is just not the Striped Ice's year. His other clutches are only about 50% fertility, better than this one. Put them all together, and I will get some more Striped Lavas.

 

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Nice clutches!!

I did hatch a few Tessera Sunkissed Aneries last season, and may get something else in combine with Tessera Sunkissed this season as well.

Looking forward to the Tessera Sunkissed Lavas!

I guess this first female counts as a Tessera Sunkissed Combine.

If it wasn't for Lava, Tessera Sunkissed, like this last photo would be my favorite. Add any color morph, and :cheers:!

 

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Tessera Ghost het PS x RC Bloodred het PS

Speaking of my Tessera Ghost male, here is a clutch laid by a female he bred.

Last year this male was bred to Bloodreds. The difference this year, is he is being bred to PS lines.

I do know more about Silverqueen than I said. It is nice to have someone on this forum that is educated in Genetics and can repeat what they have learned to us. It gives us a model of possibilities.

I test the model one breeding season after another, or I just have experience. I apply what I think I have learned about Corn Snake genetics, and see what commonality results I get.

I have never owed a Silverqueen, but I received its genes as het. The make up of Silverqueen was split apart, Tessera x Silverqueen. My Tessera did prove to be het for Ghost, but he was also het for Masque, Yellow Jacket and RedCoat. He was also het for what I call Border-less.

We can either say Border-less is a Corn Snake co-dominant gene, or it comes from somewhere else, like Rat Snakes. Do some Rat Snakes have co-dominant genes for Borderless YJ. A friend of mine just caught one.

Tessera seems to exaggerate our mutant genes and signs of hybridization. That is just my opinion, based upon a LOT of Tessera clutches hatched.

My Tessera het Silverqueen proved to be a Tessera het masque Ghost, YJ, RC and Borderless. A Silverqueen could be a YJ, RC, Border-less Masque Ghost.

It seems as if, only the RC gene possibility came from the Tessera. Original Tesseras are Okeetees.

So why was my Tessera het Siliverqueens pattern, not "perfect"? He was het for 6 mutant genes, some of which effected his pattern.

 

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Topaz het Motley x Caramel het Lava Motley

Another one of these girls with a nice clutch.

 

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Normal het Striped Sunkissed Snow Lava x Amel het Striped Sunkissed Ice

Normal, what is normal?

What we should be thinking is that at each allele our mutant genes are located at, there should be a "Wild-Type" gene.

The breeding that started this line was Striped Champagne, x Sunkissed Lava het Amel. Five genes were added to the project, six if we consider RC, and this is the "Normal" Phase I got.

I have been breeding this project for several years now and have produced a few targets as these Striped Sunkissed Lava and Sunkissed Ice ph Striped.

Sunkissed Stripes in Amel, Anery, Lava, Amel Lava, Snow or Ice are all possible.

 

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More shots

2013 Striped Sunkissed Lava female

2014 Sunkissed Ice male

2014 Striped Sunkissed female

 

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Strawberry het Sunkissed x Strawberry ph Sunkissed

So why Strawberry over Hypo as one of my focus genes?

Lava is here to stay. Hypo acts like Yellow Jacket and lightens, or turns an Amel orange. With combinations like this Strawberry Topaz Plasma, the remaining red color is better than Hypos lightening effect.

I think Strawberry is more wide spread, especially in some of our Hypo Bloodreds than we know. Hypos are orange, Strawberries are red, and Hypo/Straw is in-between.

This line of Strawberry's comes from Chuck and Connie Pritzel, who described Strawberry as being and allele to Hypo.

The last photo is of a RC Strawberry Bloodred het Topaz, ph Opal.

 

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RedCoat Strawberry Bloodred het Topaz ph Opal

With this line proving to be het for Strawberry and not Hypo, it helped me add more Strawberries to my colony.

I have some Motleys het for Red Lava Strawberry, that will be breeding next year, so Strawberry is getting worked in.

I also have some Tesseras that are het for Strawberry. There is always next year to dream about.

 

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What a great thread, really nice to see this.

 

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Strawberry? Topaz Bloodred

She looks different, lighter and rosy.

Breeding: Topaz Bloodred het Strawberry x Het Topaz Blood, Straw, Opal.

Something is different about her, compared to all of my other Topaz Bloods produced. Strawberry is a possibility.

 

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Topaz het Straw Bloodred x Lavender het Topaz Bloodred

This projects original target was Topaz Bloodreds. When I found out the project also contained Opal and Strawberry, I started saving back every morph and combine I produced.

I began matching them up to test them out each year. As more and more test out, I am able to match them up better to a mate, while further testing them as I go.

I never planed on mixing Topaz with Lavender, but it has been done, and this line has proven to be one of my favorite, Mystery lines.

 

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RedCoat Lava Lavenders

These are not from the about line. They are from a RC Lava Lav X RC het Lava Lav breeding. The parents were not YJ.

I don't think RC YJ, allow much pink, but without YJ, RC's color is pink on some combines.

 

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That lava lavender is fantastic!!!

 

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Sunkissed Anery het Striped x RedCoat Amel het Striped Sunkissed Anery

This female proved to not carry the Lava gene, so this male was a good match, and his fertility was good.

Striped Anery Sunkissed het Amels please.

Here is another example of a project created that produced Border-less morphs. Reverse Okeetees are quite different than this female. Where did the Okeetee borders go, from the Sunkissed and Lava lines in this mix?

Striped Champagne x Amel Sunkissed het Lava, produced RC Sunglows?

Some of the siblings Amels to this female has borders, so the Striped Champagne was het Border-less perhaps?

 

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That lava lavender is fantastic!!!

Thanks, and I agree!

Finally, Lava Lavenders I can really drool over.

There are actually 0.2 in the photos, so I have two female RC Lava Lav hold backs. What will I do with them? I think try to make more of the same.