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Is she really a hypo? What is she?

I don't understand why people buy and breed petstore animals at all (except feeder mice) but that's just me. Especially since the pet market is so over-saturated with cornsnakes as it is. A pet store is for pets, not for breeding stock.
 
Camby said:
I am sure this will not sit well with you, but you need to take some responsibility in the error also. You stated you "thought it was too good to be true" and in a later response to another poster you stated you didn't think it was a hypo. So, you can't just blame the store, you have to follow your gut and then research also.

The snake has way too much melanin to be a hypo in my opinion, but then I have been wrong before in my life. If you want to check to be sure before breedings, then look to the shed skins. The shed skin of a hypo doesn't show melanin from the pattern. If the skin is clear, then it is a hypo, if you can see the pattern, then not hypo.

dc
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The shed skin thing is a great idea and one that would've never occurred to me! My normal's pattern shows completely through whenever he sheds... the time it happened I worried he'd lost some scales or something!
 
I have hypos that show pattern on their sheds, so that's not a viable resource for determining hypo vs normal. It's already been pointed out by a valued member that hypos can be widely variable. Breeding trials are your best bet to prove hypo or not.
 
dionythicus said:
I have hypos that show pattern on their sheds, so that's not a viable resource for determining hypo vs normal. It's already been pointed out by a valued member that hypos can be widely variable. Breeding trials are your best bet to prove hypo or not.
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Like I said, I could be wrong. However, to date, I have never had a hypo show melanin in the shed. Ghosts sometimes show it, not sure if the enry causes this somehow, but it does happen from time to time. Like with all things, I am sure there are exceptions.

dc
 
dionythicus said:
I have hypos that show pattern on their sheds, so that's not a viable resource for determining hypo vs normal. It's already been pointed out by a valued member that hypos can be widely variable. Breeding trials are your best bet to prove hypo or not.
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just cuaght something, you said "on the head". What about the body, does the dorsal or lateral pattern show up on these same corns?

dc
 
Candachan said:
I don't understand why people buy and breed petstore animals at all (except feeder mice) but that's just me. Especially since the pet market is so over-saturated with cornsnakes as it is. A pet store is for pets, not for breeding stock.
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Ah, but I got Vanay from a petco, and she is my ideal gray snake now, despite having been ugly brown as a baby. Now she is stunning shades of silver and graphite.
 
Camby said:
just cuaght something, you said "on the head". What about the body, does the dorsal or lateral pattern show up on these same corns?

dc
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I didn't say "on the head". Not sure what you read?? I find pattern on the entire shed.
 
dionythicus said:
I didn't say "on the head". Not sure what you read?? I find pattern on the entire shed.
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hahaha, you are right, I misread HEAF rather than SHEDS, lol. It is late and my only two brain cells are no longer communicating eh?

dc
 
Well

Alot of people jump to conclusions,if a snake is a little lighter then the rest of the clutch its hypo.Hope you have it far away from the rest of your collection.I am just waiting to here about how someone brought a new snake in the collection and all there snakes died! So easy to happen,if you plan to be a breeder my suggestion is buy babys the best babys you could find and start your projects with those .It will pay off in the long run and you wont have to worry as much about loosing everything you collected.If you buy a hypo plasma stripe say for a 100 bucks and it dies 2 weeks later was that a good deal? As far as I see it, there is going to be alot of people out of this hobby within the next couple years,the main reason is cause they know whats best and never done it before....... good luck with your future cornsnake breeding projects:rolleyes:
Maybe what I am trying to say is there is no easy way /shortcuts to getting Quality Stock.Believe me when I say I know that........
 
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