corncrest64
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Most baby snakes morphs I've seen pretty much look the same as adults of that morph. How come blood red babies look so different from adults?
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Roy Munson
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I'm with Brian. In fact, I can't really think of any morphs where the hatchlings and adults look nearly the same. The closest thing I an think of might be blizzard, and I think they look a lot different as adults too.
Sisuitl
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The only ones I can think of that are close to the same are blizzards and maybe candy canes.
Part of the reason baby corns can look so radically different from their adult counterparts is that the yellow pigmentation develops over time. Baby butters have a pale orangey sherbertish-ness that eventually turns into the bright yellows of an adult butter. Normals that get orange backgrounds don't start out that way. Usually the ones with good potential for bright orange backgrounds will have an orange dot between each saddle after their first shed, but it takes time for all the color pigment to fill in.
As for bloodreds, their gene causes the saddles to diffuse into the background color over time. So they start out with a light background, and as time goes by that fills in with a back ground color (orange or red maybe) and at the same time their saddle markings sort of blur into each other as the animal gets older, until you (ideally) have a solid colored snake. The bloodred (Diffused) gene does the same thing if you breed it into other colors, so a snake that is a butter and also homo bloodred would eventually over time become a solid yellow snake. Pewters and granites work the same way by combining charcoal and anery with bloodred.
Part of the reason baby corns can look so radically different from their adult counterparts is that the yellow pigmentation develops over time. Baby butters have a pale orangey sherbertish-ness that eventually turns into the bright yellows of an adult butter. Normals that get orange backgrounds don't start out that way. Usually the ones with good potential for bright orange backgrounds will have an orange dot between each saddle after their first shed, but it takes time for all the color pigment to fill in.
As for bloodreds, their gene causes the saddles to diffuse into the background color over time. So they start out with a light background, and as time goes by that fills in with a back ground color (orange or red maybe) and at the same time their saddle markings sort of blur into each other as the animal gets older, until you (ideally) have a solid colored snake. The bloodred (Diffused) gene does the same thing if you breed it into other colors, so a snake that is a butter and also homo bloodred would eventually over time become a solid yellow snake. Pewters and granites work the same way by combining charcoal and anery with bloodred.