Are check gaps normal?

[PurraLovesJazz]

I recently hatched out a clutch of baby corns produced by a friend. I am unsure of the parents, I would have to ask her again what they were, but the babies are all normals. However, 4 of 16 had very large gaps in their belly checks, and a couple others had a little gap here and there. I already split the babies with her, so I only have two of the big-gapped ones left.

I'm just wondering if this is something that happens regularly, or if its somehow genetic? Just for curiosity's sake really. All but one of the odd hatchlings have a normal pattern, the last is zig zag.

Baby #1

Baby #2

If you have any hatchlings like that, feel free to post pictures I'd just like to see if this is normal or not

 

[Susan]

This is only part of the clutch. There are more like these as well as a couple of siblings with regularly checked bellies. Since these hatchlings are het Sunkissed motley, and I had 2 hatchlings in a clutch last year that were poss het Sunkissed motley, I suspect it has to do with that. Since some homozygous Sunkissed motleys can have some belly checks, as well as motleys het Sunkisse3d with a few belly checks, why not some hets without some belly checks! And the best part, dorsally, these hatchlings have a motley-like pattern over the minimal checkered belly part.

 

[cobained]

I had a few normals hatch out last year that had minimal checkering on the first quarter or so of their bodies, but then regular checking past that. Thought it was interesting, but the were my first babies and figured it was probably normal. Who knows?

 

[omni]

So does this mean there's some positive evidence that Starkissed can be a dominant to a Motley's plain belly in the checking? And maybe that aberrant checking when should be plain as in Motleys can be a het marker?

 

[omni]

Susan did you see that last baby pooing on you?

 

[ShenziSixaxis]

All of them seem to be musking at the hold on their head. xD




Interesting bellies.

 

[Susan]

Susan did you see that last baby pooing on you?

All of them seem to be musking at the hold on their head. xD

Newly hatched corn snakes are not fond of being held upside down so they can have their bellies photographed. Heck, they aren't fond of being photographed period. They were also just sexed before being photographed which tends to make them through whatever bodily fluids they possess at you.