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snow or coral snow?

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mario5021089

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hi

i saw these corns being advertised as coral snows, the seller will be in my city tomorrow so i need your help as they are really cheap so i was thinking of buying one.

you think they are coral or could the images be tempered or are they simple snow?

thanks in advance!



 
Those look like normal Snows to me.

Here is a female Coral Snow & a male Coral Snow. Females are generally lighter pink than the males.
 

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Can the seller prove their lineage? I know snows change a lot as they grow and those look awfully young.
 
i thought so as well! did ask for more recent photos and parents of course just thought a few more experienced opinions would be better as well!

thanks
 
It can take up to 18 months for the deep saturated coral base color to develop or fill in. Sometimes they all develop coral color, other times not. Even with Coral X Coral, in my limited experience, often there are a few to several which never develop heavy color. Males are typically more saturated then females in my experience.

I would not label any cornsnake a Coral until it meets my personal standard of what constitutes a "Coral".

I do not have psychic abilities, so am not going to answer if those are coral snows. Some seem to have some pinkish base color, but whether that color continues to develop or not, who knows :shrugs:

Camera flash, poor lighting, "yellow wavelength light", (or pink or blue wavelengths) will produce pictures with severely washed out color. Hence the pictures of the babies' parents looking like "regular snows".
 
I didn't share more because I'm only familiar with the line bred Coral Snows that are Amel and Anery. No Hypo involved. I'm also familiar with Bubblegums which are also just a line bred snow (Amel and Anery). Out of the litters of line bred Corals and Bubblegums I'm familiar with, all the babies hatched out looking like normal snows and developed varying degrees of pink as they grew.

However if we are talking about Coral as in Amel, Anery and Hypo; I don't have experience with them and do not know if you can tell if the babies are going to be pink right off the bat.

If you want a nice pink animal, personally I would buy one that has already started to developed it's colors.
 
Seeing the parents, I'd definitely say regular Snow.

If you like them & the price is right, by all means, pick one up! :)
 
the price is normal for a regular snow and those i can find anytime. my next snake i'd rather be a female stripe something as i only have 2 stripe and both are male.
 
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