just wondering creamsicle or albino morph...

[salty pigeons]

hey i'm just wondering if my snake is a creamsicle or an albino was sold as creamsicle then was told it was albino but as a baby i guess they might be harder to tell for sure? just want one last vote. thanks.

 

[reptile65]

Looks like an amel (albino) to me. Very pretty!

 

[Sharon]

A creamsicle is a hybrid, cornsnake x ratsnake, with the amel gene. You can't tell by looking, so if it was labeled as a creamsicle, consider it such.

 

[Ixchel]

Looks more like a regular amel to me but as said, if it was labeled as a creamsicle you should consider it one to be safe... It may be the offspring of a creamsicle to a corn which makes it pretty hard if not impossible to tell the difference.

 

[Tonatiuh-MX]

For me is amel!!

Greetings!

 

[starsevol]

I have to agree, if it was labeled a creamsicle, consider it one.
It is impossible to tell a creamsicle from an amel by looking at it. But a creamsicle is not a cornsnake. It is a hybrid.

 

[jayson rafter]

I have to agree, if it was labeled a creamsicle, consider it one.
It is impossible to tell a creamsicle from an amel by looking at it. But a creamsicle is not a cornsnake. It is a hybrid.

Imo...I think creams would be a bit more Orange-ish & possibly a bit larger (in my experience) but still hard to tell with a photo & have to agree with above.

 

[salty pigeons]

okay thanks guys i know a creamsicles a hybrid but looking at other pictures of creamsicles their heads are slightly bigger than corns correct? also the person who first told me that it would be most likely an albino said the pet store has gotten miss labeled snakes before. so i dont know. either way im happy with em

 

[Shiari]

It depends entirely on the percentage of corn in the hybrid. If they're 90% corn snake, they aren't going to look like a stereotypical creamsicle at all.

 

[DMong]

It depends entirely on the percentage of corn in the hybrid. If they're 90% corn snake, they aren't going to look like a stereotypical creamsicle at all.

EXACTLY!!,.......evn though it "looks" much more like a typical amel cornsnake, there is absolutely no way of knowing if there IS or ISN'T any emoryi blood involved. Only the past breeder(s) know this, and even they can be mistaken on what they bred and what they were labeled as.

To the OP,.....pet stores acquire misidentified snakes ALL THE TIME, and stores can also misidentify snakes that they acquire and are selling themselves quite often too. If it has a smaller percentage of emoryi in it's genetic background, it is still a hybrid creamsicle and should be called a creamsicle even though it might seem phenotypically (visually) a 100% cornsnake.

Bottom line is,....nobody can say it is or isn't by looks alone, and all you can responsibly do now is treat it as a creamsicle since it was labeled as such and don't know any of it's genetic background personally yourself other than what you were told.

If it was a 50-50 percentage of each it would probably be much more obvious, but with much lesser amounts of emoryi blood being involved only make it less and less obvious.



~Doug

 

[Pasodama]

Imo...I think creams would be a bit more Orange-ish & possibly a bit larger (in my experience) but still hard to tell with a photo & have to agree with above.

While, typically, this may be true ... There are some that look rather red (&/or more like a pure corn). Especially when they are high percentage Corn.