My snake, possible Het???

[stuart]

Hey, I am a complete noob when it comes to genetics, its just a blur to me.

Now, when I bought my corn I was told that he was a result of a Ghost Corn Snake and a Great Plains Ratsnake. He has very strong emoryi features, and almost no Ghost features... Does this make him Het Ghost?

and.. would he need to breed with another het ghost to produce ghosts?

Heres a pic, if needed:

Headshot incase you need something with the eyes or something :shrugs:

and normal bodyshot pic:

I know very limited about this stuff, so any help is appreciated... Cheers guys :cheers:

 

[Ssthisto]

Yes, your animal is het for Anery and for Hypo A.

However, in my opinion... even if you breed it to a ghost, you will not get 'ghost' offspring.

You would get roughly:

25% Copper (not visual hypo, not visual anery, great plains cross)
25% Anery Great Plains Hybrid (unnamed morph! - not visual hypo, though)
25% Hypo Great Plains Hybrid (I think this might be called a 'cinnamon' ?)
25% Hypo Anery Great Plains Hybrid (I don't think this has a name yet either).

 

[vanderkm]

Very nice snake!! As indicated above, the cross between a ghost corn and a great plains ratsnake (emoryi) will produce normal colored emoryi/corns - a variation that here is called 'rootbeer'. Your snake will carry the anery A and hypo A genes from the ghost parent. When bred to a ghost corn you will reduce the percentage of emoryi in the offspring and produce more 'rootbeers' (is this called copper in the UK?), as well as cinnamons (hypo A emoryi corns), anery A emoryi/corns and ghost emoryi/corns.

We hatched a clutch containing these varieties (and creamsicles and snows) this summer from our creamsicle line. There currently are not names for the anery, ghost or snow variations although some have been proposed (fudgesicle for anery, icicle for snows) - it may be best to simply designate these by the common name used in cornsnakes along with the indication of the hybrids that go into making up the cross.

Again - you have a very nice snake - great color and very similiar to our first generation corn X emoryi crosses.


mary v.

 

[vanderkm]

Meant to add that your snake could be called het ghost, or het for anery A and hypo A. You can breed to a ghost or another het ghost to produce the 'ghost' emoryi/corns - they are visually very similar to corns of the same morph - just some reduction in side pattern and increased saddle counts in the ones we produced - otherwise color appears very similiar to corns.


These are approximately 25% emoryi, 75% corn from our clutch this year

ghost emoryi/corn

anery emoryi/corn

snow emoryi/corn

cinnamon (hypo A) emoryi/corn

rootbeer

mary v.

 

[stuart]

Thanks to both of you guys, Ssthisto nice fast reply.

vanderkm, were all them hatchlings from the same clutch? thats a very nice selection of snakes you got there. Im not looking into a ghost as such, I just thought that because he could be het for ghost it would be good to breed him with a ghost.

I have not yet bought him a partner, so I could effectively get any morph + het snake available, what would be a nice choice to get some nice hatchlings as a first clutch.

I really do like Anery A corns with distinct yellow along the neck and head and was what I was looking for as a second corn... Or would I just be able to get any morph with a particular het and produce my own anery a's ?

Im kind of confusing myself here in this post, what would be a good choice to breed with him? or doesn't it even matter?

 

[vanderkm]

Any morph that is het for anery A should give you anery A babies in the clutch. Would be nice to get a normal het for ghost and then you would have great variety in the clutch -- is nice to have them hatch when there is so much to choose from. If you got an anery female then you would get a lot of anery babies and they don't seem to sell very well - not that popular here anyway, so it is nice to have variety so that you can find homes for most of them. An amel that is het for ghost would also be great - then you could test your male out to see if he carries amel - and maybe get snows and creamsicles in the same clutch.

These hatchlings are all from one clutch - male creamslcle bred to female ghost corn
parents

good luck with your plans,


mary v

 

[jaxom1957]

These are approximately 25% emoryi, 75% corn from our clutch this year

Do you ship to the US? I have an adult creamsicle male, about five and a half feet long, and am trying to find an emoryi/corn female to eventually mate with him. Any leads on breeders in the USA, especially on the west coast, would be much appreciated. Lucius is a beautiful boy, destined to make some lady snake very happy. I should know, I was there when he was probed! :roflmao:

 

[vanderkm]

Do you ship to the US? I have an adult creamsicle male, about five and a half feet long, and am trying to find an emoryi/corn female to eventually mate with him. Any leads on breeders in the USA, especially on the west coast, would be much appreciated. Lucius is a beautiful boy, destined to make some lady snake very happy. I should know, I was there when he was probed! :roflmao:

Sorry we don't ship to the US - the US Fish and Wildlife regulations make shipment of snakes into the US too difficult There are many breeders in the US who have great creamsicles and associated varieties. Good luck finding a female to go with your cream,


mary v.