Charcoal or Anery?

[Tattery]

I've thought for over a year that my first corn is a charcoal, but now I'm thinking that he might be anery instead, and his pattern makes him look like a charcoal...
Opinions please!

(I can take more pictures if needed, these are just the ones that are currently on my computer.)

 

[Dustilyn]

I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I know that in most cases, the charcoal will have less or no yellow in the neck area. I can't really tell from the pics, but it doesn't look like she has a lot of yellow so charcoal is very possible. Do you know anything about her parentage? My charcoal has that same cute little yellow dot on her nose too

 

[Jdog3131]

If you bought him as a charcoal he most likely is.
To me he does look like a charcoal.

 

[Tattery]

Well, see, I bought him from Petco, so I have no idea what his lineage/parentage/heritage is... ^^; And yeah, he does have quite a bit of yellow on his neck... Which is part of the reason I'm getting skeptical about his real morph. :/

 

[Shiari]

He looks like a nice, brown-ish anery. He'll continue to change colors over the next couple years.

 

[MysticExotics]

Yellow on the neck is not so much an indicator anymore, either way.

Generally, what is labeled, is what the snake is, however, I know Petco can be known to mislabel to get more $.

You can try breeding your snake to prove one way or another.

 

[Tattery]

Darn... Thank you, though. Do you have any idea if there's any chance of getting a blizzard if I bred him to a reverse okeetee and then bred the babies...? I'm really new to the whole genetics thing, sorry!

 

[Tattery]

Oh, well, Tenzin was sold as a "Fancy Corn Snake"... The people there didn't really know much about morphs and whatnot.

 

[Shiari]

If you bred him to an an amel, and then bred the babies together, you would instead get snows if he is an anery.

The best thing you can do is breed him to a known anery A female. If you get ANY normal hatchlings, he is a charcoal. If you get all anery-types, then he is an anery A.

 

[Drizzt80]

The eyes. I have not seen a pure Charcoal without black irises and I have not seen a pure Anery without silver/gray irises.

Charcoal = black,
Anery = silver/gray

D80

 

[dave partington]

Last year I crossed a charcoal female (which was also homoz for other genes plus hets) with a male that was homoz granite (and a few other things plus hets), and got a mess of anery babies. They display varying degrees of "anery a or b expressivity". But they are not really either anery a or b. But they are anery.

I suspect that sometimes, some cornsnakes are carrying both anery a & b, just to toss another wrench in the gears.