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Problem With Shedding !!!

Smokey-Steve

Smokey-Steve

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Hello guys

Smokey has been shedding for just over a week now and its not like her normal shed, it's not coming off whole its like drips and drabs.

She has a humid hide (half a drinks bottle with some damp tissue paper) in there. Is it time for me to get her in the tub and try and get it off myself ???

I'm a little bit worried as i've seen some similar posts like mine and people seem to think it can endanger the corn.

So any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thank you, I'll give this a try tonight when she is out is the first time in the 4 months i've had her that this has happened all other sheds have been complete and done within about a week that is why i was worried, you have now put my mind at ease and very beautiful corn mine is an anery jungle so for my next corn i will look for maybe an amel.

A bit off topic but eventually i want to breed corns when i have alot more knowledge but what possibilities of morph would i get form breeding an amel and anery ??
 
You'd get normals for sure. If you could find an amel het anery, or a snow, then you'd get anerys. I think I'd go for a snow- there's a good chance your anery is het amel. First consider if there is a market for babies where you are, and can you afford to set up, feed and house 24 baby snakes until they are sold.

WAIT! I just read "jungle." So you'd have to be sure to sell the babies as hybrids, jungles, not cornsnakes.
 
As for being able to afford to set up is another reason why im waiting for a while and i won't begin breeding till i'm sure i can and when i do i will advertise them as hybrids and i have seen 'het' written alot but havent been able to work out what it is. So could you tell me what it is please ?? I'm keen to learn about evrything so I know what im talking about
 
I believe there is a sticky in the morph section describing basic genetic terms in detail..

P.S. my mistake about the jungle hybrid, i didnt realise just how closely related the two species were (belonging to the same Family)
 
I'll have to do a bit more reading up on breeding and the morphs and find out if there is demand for corns (or hybrids as i'd have to sell them as). I've always had a fascination with snakes in general and have always wanted to breed them but as you can see i'm not an expert on corns yet.
My friend has a corn aslo but im not sure what morph he is, but he has mentioned breeding when smokey is mature enough.
Are you planning on breeding Temano or you just happy with keeping them ??
 
I am happy with keeping it atm...

I may consider breeding at a later date as i have a penchant for genetics.
 
Het means heterozygous.

Homo means homozygous.

I tried to explain, but I am obviously horrible at that, so you can read the genetics tutorial!
 
Yes!

There is a book called Genetics For Herpers that would be very helpful to you. Even if you don't ever breed, how genetics work should be part of your knowlege base for life in general! Not just for snakes, but for everything.

It explains basic genetics in terms anyone can understand.
 
Do i need to know so i can identify what morph they are, and how do you know a recessive gene is there if its hidden by the dominant gene ?
 
It might be easy to try and create a morph you desire, one trait at a time, otherwise the statistics and possible allele combination in any offspring would confuse anyone.
 
The only possible way to determine a morphs genes is to breed them, several clutches to be sure.

I dont think any companies provide that sort of genetic test, it would probably cost alot, possibly in excess of £500 anyway.
 
so bewst way to find out is just leartn differnet morphs and what type of genes they have and then breed several clutches from same parents then all genes will show ?
 
Smokey-Steve said:
So would i need to know what genes my anery has then to be able to breeed her properly ??
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It would depend on the desired out come, are there any traits she has that you'd like to enhance or remove in a blood line?

There is much to consider before breeding.

I wouldn't breed just for the sake of breeding.
 
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