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Anery or ghost?

Arachnocat

Arachnocat

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Hi everyone!
I picked up this beautiful girl today. She looks a bit different than other anerys I've seen. I'm new to corn morphs so maybe you can tell me what she is?

Thanks!

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I'm changing my vote to ghost. LOL. Just a very dark ghost! I have a female that looks very similar to her, just a bit more peachy in the saddles than yours. That's why I asked for a belly shot. Their bellies are almost the same.


EDIT: I just noticed there's a snow corn in the hide behind her. I won't go into the speech here, but please do a search for cohabbing.
 
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I'm going to say that it is anery.
IMO belly check color means nothing in the case of ghosts and anerys. They can go either way, and while there ARE some dark ghosts out there, not really that common.
 
Too tough to call. She could really be either, but the bronziness of the belly checks makes me lean just a little to the ghost side. In all the light anerys that I've had, their belly checks have remained pitch black, but there can always be exceptions. I really love the consistency of her silvery ground color!
 
Arachnocat said:
Hi everyone!
I picked up this beautiful girl today. She looks a bit different than other anerys I've seen. I'm new to corn morphs so maybe you can tell me what she is?
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I'd LEAN towards saying dark ghost, but I'd sell it as an anerythristic because LOOKS alone aren't enough to say GHOST in this case. The background is what makes me think there is a good chance it is a ghost, BUT why ID it on looks or wait for breeding? Check the shed. If an aner, they'll be dark spots where the blotches were on the sheds. If a ghost, the shed will look JUST like the shed from an albino - such as your snow. Soooo, if you can tell the sheds from the two snakes apart at a quick glance, she is an aner. If you can't, then she is a ghost. Simple!

darkmorning1 said:
i have a male like her.
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If the colors are accurate in that image, I have to ask, "Are you SURE about that?" I'd check the sex and/or hypo before I would say male ghost on that one.......judging from ONLY the tiny bit the image shows, of course. I suspect the colors aren't that accurate in the photo...Shrug? Only uoi can answer that question, though.
KJ
 
KJUN said:
... Check the shed. If an aner, they'll be dark spots where the blotches were on the sheds. If a ghost, the shed will look JUST like the shed from an albino - such as your snow. Soooo, if you can tell the sheds from the two snakes apart at a quick glance, she is an aner. If you can't, then she is a ghost. Simple!...
KJ
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I'm not sure about your ghosts, but all of mine have some pigment in their sheds which varies with how dark they are. That's one way I can tell a dilute from a ghost...lack of any pigment in a dilute's shed.
 
Thanks everyone! It's hard to say. I appreciate everyone's input.
And yes, there's a snow male in there with her.
 
Susan said:
I'm not sure about your ghosts, but all of mine have some pigment in their sheds which varies with how dark they are. That's one way I can tell a dilute from a ghost...lack of any pigment in a dilute's shed.
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If you have HypoA cornsnakes with MELANIN in the sheds (which is what I referenced), you have the only ones in the world like that. :) Of course words like ever/never make a fool out of one, but this is based on something Don Soderberg figured out, and then I checked on well over a hundred hatchlings...and ALL of my adults. :) Matter of fact, we then saved sheds and compared multiple hypo genes and milti-gene combos for comparison.

Adding in Don's work (since he started it), I wouldn't want to guess at how many samples this comes to from how many different outcrossed lines, but NONE of them have gross signs of melanin in the sheds. Unless yours are different from Don's and mine.....or you just found some husbandry-related differences that make yours throw melanin but not ours. Possible, but unlikely.
 
That's really interesting! Thanks.
I should probably mention that the male is only in there temporarily, for breeding. He's got his own cage :)
 
Arachnocat said:
That's really interesting! Thanks.
I should probably mention that the male is only in there temporarily, for breeding. He's got his own cage :)
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That'll make us worry warts a little more comfortable, but now we have to lecture you about the need for quarantining new purchased AWAY from the rest of your collection. ;)
 
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