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sudden striping

So Pirate55

So Pirate55

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I have a normal (miami but not a perfect specimen but i love her the same) and lately i've noticed that she's starting to develop some darker striping down her back. It almost looks like the striping on a yellow ratsnakel, but she's full corn according to the guy i got her from. So what i'm asking is she possibly het stripe and this is a lil indication? Just wondering......I know that normally hets dont show but i didnt know whether striped hets was similar to what you see in bloodred hets. Oh well i can always wait another year or 2 and run her through a breeding test to be sure.
 
Some lines of corns develop the striping. It's natural. The reason you don't see it as much is that most breeders prefer to breed that trait out of their collection. But it's perfectly normal and has NOTHING to do with whether your corn is pure corn, nor does it indicate any sort of het trait.

-Kat
 
I noticed you said "her"

Dude, you know how women change their minds! Give her some "me time" or buy her a little gift (maybe that new ceramic bowl she's been talking about) and she'll be back to normal in no time. :D
 
thanks kat. it's what i was thinking, considering that i've come across a few in the wild that had that striping. But, they were all found within the same "area" so i was assuming that it could be a genetics thing. I wasnt exactly sure.

Cav, amen brother, btw nice oke in that avatar
 
I have a normal motley who has had those dark stripes since he was a baby. Kathy Love mentions them in the Corn Snake Manual as a naturally occurring pattern that isn't anything to worry about.
 
and as quick as it appeared it disappeared. She was in blue phase and just had 2 stripes runnin the length of her dorsal. And now it's gone with the shed
 
In any of my corns that actually exhibit the longitudinal striping, the striping becomes way more pronounced right before a shed. If your corn just has a slight stripe, it may not be very visible until she darkens up with her shed cycle.

Look at pics of many wild caught corns, you'll see more striping. As a whole, most breeders select for those with less of the longitudinal striping and have effectively "cleaned up" the pattern to the point that the striping has disappeared in many lines.
 
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