HELP!!! Coral Snow, Strawberry Snow, or Salmon Snow?

[CalGirl]

Messing around on CornCalc again, and have run into a bit of confusion....

Looking at VMSherp site (where I purchased my lovely Lavender. Love him!!!) , and their description of the Coral Snow is as follows:

Homozygous for Amelanism, Anerythrism, and either Hypo-Strawberry or Strawberry, three recessive mutations. aka Strawberry Snow. Essentially a Snow corn, but with incredible pink coloration. Tend to develop much more reddish and orangish pigmentation than typical Snow corns, although this varies. This has led to the trade name 'Coral Corn' being used for lines of them with really intense pinks, and it fits! Males are usually somewhat brighter than females.

However, when punched into CornCalc, this combo is listed as a Salmon Snow. When I put in just reg Hypo, w/o the Strawberry influence, I'm getting a regular Coral Snow. The outcome in resultant offspring is very different, and w/ the Hypo-Strawberry vs Strawberry, drastically so.

The reason I am getting into this is I am looking at picking up a female to prove out hets for my Lavender (ph Amel, Hypo, Anery). Now I'm just baffled.

 

[mjdglobal]

Well, there are a lot of names for these snakes and there really hasn't been a standard established. Different breeders are calling their snakes different things, so there is a lot of confusion on this topic, been a lot of threads about this. After Strawberry Snow, Hypo Snow, Coral Snow, and Salmon Snow, you might as well muddy things up even more with Champagne Snow and Neon Snow. I'd ask if VMS knows which type of hypo your snake may possibly be het for and go from there. Good luck.

Mitch

 

[crackerhead]

Sean actually states in his description that his snows are Strawberry Snows; which are the same as Salmon Snow, a name coined by SW Reptile. He goes on to state that Hypo A may also be present which of course was part of the original SMR stock from whence the ancestors originated.
I agree with the confusion here. It's one of my pet peeves about morph names. Frequently they are misused. As in when a person wants desperately to have their Amel to be more than just an Amel so they insist that it is a "Sunglow" or "Candycane" when in fact it is just and Amel. That's not nearly as bad as morph names that define a combination of genes like Coral Snows. That kind of nonsense can screw up breeding plans.
If you only want Strawberry Snows (Amel Anery & Strawberry) look to breeders that have painstakingly separated out those specific genes. If you are buying for looks and don't truly care about the exact genetics then Sean's are very nice animals; give or take the Hypo A. With selective breeding they will be equally as intensely saturated with pink as say JMG's or SWR.

Terri

 

[Susan]

It can be confusing, but it does look as if it's getting slightly straightened out with the discovery of the strawberry gene and it's being an allele to hypo A. You just have to determine which gene you want to work with to get the look you're after. You can then also figure in the possible Red-factor gene that seems apparent in the Landrace lavas and JMG's Extreme corns (and I also think it's in their coral ghosts and salmon snows). It may still simply be the strawberry gene, but many of the regular proven strawberrys I've seen just don't compare to the high red seen in those others.