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Unexpected corn snake pattern identification

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SuperScalesReptiles

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I had my first clutch of corn snakes hatch and the first 13 were all normal het albino, as expected. But the 14th one hatched out 3 days later than the rest and has a strange pattern not like the others. (Picture attached Can anyone identify what's going on in this little hatchling? Is this a hidden gene I didn't know about or a defect?
 
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No, neither parent has any pattern like that. They were sold to me as a normal male and albino female so I only expected to get normal het albino babies.
 
That's really interesting. Tessera is dominate over normal, so tessera probably isn't at work here if neither of the parents display it.


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Other than tessera I'm unsure of what it could be. My only other guess would be motley/stripe, though I don't think that's right either.


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Quite possibly. He does look a little awkwardly proportioned. Did the parents happen to be related in any way?


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Not that I know of. If they were related, wouldn't the male have been het albino since the female is albino? The guy I got them from said he bred them the last three years and the clutches were all good. It looks to be about an inch to an inch and a half shorter than the others. This pic was taken within an hour of it coming all the way out of the egg, so it could just be a fat belly from the yolk, I guess.
 
Okay. That's good that it's moving well. It is possible that the parents could be siblings without the male being het albino (if the parents were both het for albino, the baby might inherit a copy of the normal gene from both parents). Could you post a picture of the parents? It's a possibility that they might not be pure corn snake and another species genes are at work here.


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Yea he does seem short and fat, well I think if he makes it keep him for yourself should be interesting to see as he gets older
 
That's really cool. It looks like stripe, where it starts at the head. The dorsal stripe is nice and wide, unlike Tessera. But when stripe has breaks in it, it's usually "soft" breaks that form cubes or sunspots, not sharply defined margins like that. It reminds me somewhat of Aztec, which I believe is a disturbance in the migration of the pigment. I'd get Don Soderberg to look at it, actually. Shoot him a PM on here. As for being short- I think his huge amount of yolk is contributing to that look. Sometimes there are just smaller snakes. Where was his egg located in the egg pile? Was there anything unusual about the egg?

It's definitely worth investigating, further down the road, in my opinion.
 
Aztec? Has it shed yet? Fed yet? More pictures? Looks like a sausage. Love the pattern though.
 
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