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Bloodred Amel vs Hypo

kurt1288

kurt1288

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I've looked at what amel and hypo both mean and looked at pictures of each (specifically bloodred amels and hypos). But the differences seem to be so minor. So I come to here and ask, what is the major difference between the two morphs? Thanks.
 
Amels lack ALL black. They don't produce any melanin. Their eyes and their pupils are pink/red. The belly pattern is white/clear/yellow/orange.

Hypos have REDUCED black. This can be either in quantity, or quality (gray/chocolate rather than true *black*). Their eyes are the more typical corn snake orange with either black or ruby pupils. Their belly pattern is white/gray/bronze/yellow.



Diffused is a pattern modifier that removes the belly pattern and usually reduces the side pattern as well.
 
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Thanks for that, and thanks for including diffused. Was wondering about that one too (but didn't mention it).
 
v00kimba00v said:
Bloodred is diffused
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Yup. "Bloodred" is descriptive of a particular look of diffused animals, wherein they are a dark, deep red color. Many diffused animals are brick, burnt orange, or orange in color and so should not be called bloodreds. A diffused amel is a Fire.
 
Shiari said:
Yup. "Bloodred" is descriptive of a particular look of diffused animals, wherein they are a dark, deep red color. Many diffused animals are brick, burnt orange, or orange in color and so should not be called bloodreds. A diffused amel is a Fire.
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Exactly. I wasn't feeling verbose when I posted, prob should have explained further.

Bloodred is to Diffused what Square is to Rectangle.
(Pretty proud of my 4:30 am analogy.)

All Bloodred are Diffused, but not all Diffised are Bloodred.

(it's 4:30 and I can't sleep, the post may not have made as much sense as I intended. And I think I just revealed myself as a huge nerd.)
 
Shiari said:
Yup. "Bloodred" is descriptive of a particular look of diffused animals, wherein they are a dark, deep red color. Many diffused animals are brick, burnt orange, or orange in color and so should not be called bloodreds. A diffused amel is a Fire.
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So what do we call animals that aren't diffused or bloodred? I mean, I have a granite (clearly can't be a bloodred) that isn't really diffused at all. I mean, the pattern is 95% still there. The only real indicator of her diffusedness is that she has a stark white belly?
 
fyrefocks said:
So what do we call animals that aren't diffused or bloodred? I mean, I have a granite (clearly can't be a bloodred) that isn't really diffused at all. I mean, the pattern is 95% still there. The only real indicator of her diffusedness is that she has a stark white belly?
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I'd say diffused is the name of the genotype...no matter how much or little diffused is showing (just like how a stripe can be cubed...but it is still the striped gene, or motley can be a nice thick stripe, but still the motley gene). Whereas bloodred should technically be reserved for those selectively bred bloodred (red diffused) morphs. So the granite would be anery diffused, because it has the diffused gene, even if it's not really showing great diffusion. However, bloodred has been used so interchangeably as a diffused descriptor that I think it's pretty commonplace, and I often use it myself (e.g. I have a hypo lav bloodred). As long as people understand the use (although from firsthand experience I know the "bloodred" term can be confusing at first).
 
It's the same sort of thing when you see "Okeetee" instead of "Okeetee phase, "Miami" instead of "Miami phase" and "Upper Keys" instead of "Upper Keys phase". We also still see the term "albino" and know what is meant.
 
so I have a question. What would an oak phase be? the guy i bought my new corn snake from said it may be a possible oak phase... I know he is albino. that is about it.
 
Thank you for th link. I'm still doing research. I would love to know exactly what I have. I'm leaning more to the Reverse Okeetee. I seen a few pix and mine looks almost identical all the way down to the patterns. Thank again. I'll post pix as soon as I get home and get some good ones.
 
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