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Blue is my favorite color...

paigehi

paigehi

Teaching Snakes To Read
So I am breeding snakes that are anery, and het for lavender and hypo. From everything I've seen, the "anery lav" is the closest I can come to a blue corn. I'm in love with lavs in general, and will probably keep most of the babies that express that gene, and while I'm not looking forward to trying to sort out the pippies, I'm curious... I haven't heard much about this line of breeding for a while. Is there still any interest/any market? I've already lined up a reputable petstore to purchase the extra aneries, but I wanted to see if anybody on here would be interested in sharing photos (or even genes) in the quest for that blue snake!
 
Actually I've been throwing a few pairs of Anery Lavenders together recently and been taking a look at them. Sorry, but I really don't see any blue in them to speak of. Maybe with some time and selective breeding that could happen, but that would likely be a long and winding road to travel....
 
Well...I might have been waxing happily on a legitimately periwinkle hue...I know I won't get optical "blue" (I'm a science teacher, I have to say stuff like that, and to some degree the snakes are a visible genetics lesson). Neverthless, I love my "kids" and I've chosen the best genetics I know of... like I said in the original post, I'm being as responsible as possible and don't plan on selling most of the hatchlings as anything more than pets. I do know my genetics and my husbandry, and I know I won't get "blue". If I get "gorgeous" (which I like to think I will) I will consider it a successful experiment indeed!
 
How about one step further: Dilute Anery Lavender? or Dilute Anery Charcoal - I bet that might be quite clean bluish grey...

Oh and patternless of course!

So who'd create some of those? :D
 
I doubt there will ever be truly blue corns.....even with crazy mutations coincidentally happening to a male and female that are able to breed. There is a huge amount of genetic variation within corns, but they do not possess the proper pigments to create an intense version of the colour (naturally at least).
 
We will be producing Anery Lavenders this season. I don't think the babies will that hard to identify from one another. The clutch being produced were from a pairing of a Anery Lavender x Lavender het Anery. I have been waiting to produce these for a couple of years now for the same reason as you. My favorite color is blue. Other then the Dilutes I think an Anery Lavender is probably as close to blue as we are going to get. Maybe Hypo will intensify the hues as well but I am not sure I have ever seen a Ghost Lavender (I have that project underway as well, might be harder to identify). Here is a picture of our Anery Lavender "Miles". It is as close to "blue" as I can get.......... for now. ;)
Jay :cool:
 

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Miles looks purple to me- but that's a good thing!! I'm still waiting for that in stripe! He's gorgeous.
 
Nanci said:
Miles looks purple to me- but that's a good thing!! I'm still waiting for that in stripe! He's gorgeous.
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Your right Nanci. He is purpleish, in a blueish kind of way. Like I said, he is as close to blue as I can get......... so far. ;) And this morph in Stripe form would be incredible.
Jay :cool:
 
That's the only thing that's kept me from buying one- I really only want stripes now. Except for El Wray, couldn't resist. Othewise, I think anery lavs are the perfect color.
 
Well, I've had my first sucessful mating...so now the waiting begins. I'm not worried about telling the anery lavs from the anerys, I'm concerned about being able to pick out the "ghost lav" on the off chance I get one. The clutch has the potential for anery, ghost, anery lav, and ghost lav, so it'll be an exciting hatching day! I agree, stripes would be gorgeous, but I couldn't afford those genes!
 
Nanci said:
You should look at dilute anerys...Or vanishing stripe or patternless anerys!
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I agree with Nanci, I believe you get a bit closer to "Blue" with the Dilute Anery.
Here is a pic of a Dilute Anery Motley (A.K.A. Blue Motley)

Walter,
:crazy02: BOUT' CORNS !!
 

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Oooh, that dilute is atonishingly lovely! Must...resist...urge...to...buy...more...corns...
 
Well, I have a bunch of Anerythristic Motleys het Lavender I'm breeding this year. Should be a few Anery Lavender Motleys in the bunch, I suppose.. ;)

Motley does tend to bend the colors somewhat, so I expect they will be interesting looking, at the very least. At least I hope so when I put them on the tables at Expo this year.... :grin01:

Actually some of the Lavender Motleys I have COULD be Anery Lavender Motleys, as not all of the Anery Lavenders are starkly different looking from a run of the mill Lavender.
 
Ian1515 said:
i bred my Dilute Charcoal x bloodred charcoal:spinner::spinner:
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You have a Dilute Charcoal?
I ask because I only know of one person who has a Dilute Charcoal. If there are any other Dilute Charcoals (that are known to be such), they are quite rare.
 
Pasodama said:
You have a Dilute Charcoal?
I ask because I only know of one person who has a Dilute Charcoal. If there are any other Dilute Charcoals (that are known to be such), they are quite rare.
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You beat me to it as I was thinking the same thing. I can't think of anyone that has produced a dilute charcoal and has announced it. I would love to see a photo!
 
IMO, a dilute anery stripe or dilute anery striped bloodred that has a minimal amount of pink may come the closest to being a blue corn snake. This lady shows a lovely shade of light blue on her rear half (and I love the pinks and yellows on her front half).
 
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