want to make corals

[iowa corn]

i'm trying to figure out what combintion i have to do to make a corals. I have a charcol, snow, bloodred, sunkiss, and a reverse okette for females and i only have a normal and a reverse okette for males. i'm more or less doing it as a hobbey not to makeout on money wise. my wife really loves them and is ok with me getting more snakes (JACKPOT) or if anyone has one or two for sale for cheap would also do that to. not looking to spend $500 like i've seen some going for tho. any help would be appreciated
thanks :crazy02:

 

[crackerhead]

What is "your" definition of a Coral? The name has come to mean many things over the years. The most common understandings are line bred Snows or Hypo Snows.
The Strawberry gene (a hypo) has been recently definitively determined to be in the mix of some very pink Snows that are sometimes called Coral too. And there is much speculation on Red Factor as having play on how pink these Strawberry Snows become.
Do you want the soft pink wash of the line bred Champagnes or the fluorescent pinks of the Salmons? So you need to nail down what your quintessential Snow is and then assemble the necessary ingredients.

Terri

 

[iowa corn]

well i guess we didn't know there was that many diffrent kinds. the one she has seen and like was a gray and pink. But i would be interested in what a snow/pink one would look like tho she mite like that too

 

[toxiclight]

http://iansvivarium.com/cornsnakemorphs.php has quite a few pictures of the different morphs and colors available. You could look there and pinpoint exactly what you're looking for and work from there?

 

[crackerhead]

well i guess we didn't know there was that many diffrent kinds. the one she has seen and like was a gray and pink. But i would be interested in what a snow/pink one would look like tho she mite like that too

Snows, because of the Amel involved, don't have any black pigment. Therefore can't be gray. Gray and pink would most likely be a Ghost. And within that morph there are Silver Queens, Naples Ghosts/Specters and Strawberry Ghosts (Salmon Ghosts). Of course she might have been looking at something in the Lav combos. Orchids (Lav Sunkissed), Hypo Lavs, Lav Bloods and Hypo Lav Bloods frequently sport pink hues with gray too.

Terri

 

[iowa corn]

it was a salmon ghost. so do u think if i took my charcol female and got a strawberry male do u think i mite be able to get some salmon gost?

 

[Arpolis]

If you are going the route of line bread salmon ghost then your best bet is to breed your snow (amel X anery) to a salmon ghost (strawberry X anery). There is a guy on the site that did a pairing of a SMR (south mountain reptile) coral snow male to a diffused anery and some of the males from that pairing had some pink in the back ground with dark gray saddles. I am currently raising a 2010 coral snow from Don at SMR and a anery lavender possible het/homo hypo that I plan to breed in hopes I get that pink & black/grey combo. There have been several confirmed breedings where snakes from the neon and SMR coral lines pass on some pink coloration into the first generation and getting much more prominent with following generations. Good luck on your hunt.

 

[crackerhead]

Salmon Ghosts come from Don Soderberg's Coral Snow Line. It is a combination of line breeding and the addition of the Strawberry gene. Jeff at JMG has some great examples. The males are more colorful than the females. Don S. actually has a Strawberry Het Amel Female available at this time.

Terri