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Reverse Okeetee vs. Fluorescent Okeetee?
- Thread starter Rishi
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rickmoss95
New member
i think...
the reverse okeetee's are not actually amel okeetee's, just really thick white bands around the back saddles(selectively bred amels)...im not sure a true okeetee amel even exists...the flourescent amels are just a really bright "flouro" orange looking amel animal(also selectively bred). i am pretty new to corn snakes but this is the way i understood what i have read about this subject, so all you corn experts please correct me if anything i said may be off...especially if any true okeetee amels are around. i do know that there is a crapload of amel variations that are selectively bred.
the reverse okeetee's are not actually amel okeetee's, just really thick white bands around the back saddles(selectively bred amels)...im not sure a true okeetee amel even exists...the flourescent amels are just a really bright "flouro" orange looking amel animal(also selectively bred). i am pretty new to corn snakes but this is the way i understood what i have read about this subject, so all you corn experts please correct me if anything i said may be off...especially if any true okeetee amels are around. i do know that there is a crapload of amel variations that are selectively bred.
Yarmuck
The Poopsmith
Actually, they are both selectively bred amelanistic corn snakes. The fluorescent is bred to be particularly bright orange as seen here:
http://iansvivarium.com/morphguide/fluorescent/
And the Reverse Okeetee has been bred to look like just like an Okeetee, except with the thick white bands instead of black. In order to replace the black with white, the Amelanistic gene needs to be in play.
http://iansvivarium.com/morphguide/reverseokeetee/
Hope this helps.
http://iansvivarium.com/morphguide/fluorescent/
And the Reverse Okeetee has been bred to look like just like an Okeetee, except with the thick white bands instead of black. In order to replace the black with white, the Amelanistic gene needs to be in play.
http://iansvivarium.com/morphguide/reverseokeetee/
Hope this helps.
rickmoss95
New member
that is what i just said, in a little bit different wording???
Correct. Each, including the High Whites, are selectively bred.
SnakeAround
Formerly Blutengel
To me a reverse okeetee should also have a bright/deep orange background, since normal okeetees are supposed to have loads of orange in their browns too. Fluorescent orange just means loads of orange to me, but without any white those are sunglows then, lol. So IMO there should only be sunglows and reverse okeetees in the high orange department, and on the opposite side of the line bred amel section Reverse 'Buckskin' okeetee (little orange) and high white reverse okeetees. But that's just me 
Looking at photo's on the net, people seem to call amels with thick white borders but little orange in the background reverse okeetee, and the ones with loads of orange fluorescent orange.
I would call this boy of mine fluorescent orange, since he ain't reverse okeetee or sunglow, but has loads of orange:
Googling a bit I found Rich of Serpenco agrees with me, hehe Fluorescent means 'loads of orange'.
http://www.serpenco.com/cultivars/fluorescent.html
Looking at photo's on the net, people seem to call amels with thick white borders but little orange in the background reverse okeetee, and the ones with loads of orange fluorescent orange.
I would call this boy of mine fluorescent orange, since he ain't reverse okeetee or sunglow, but has loads of orange:
Googling a bit I found Rich of Serpenco agrees with me, hehe
Fluorescent means 'loads of orange'.http://www.serpenco.com/cultivars/fluorescent.html