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matt1134

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i bought this pair of corns yesterday and not sure what they are. they look totally different than my other normals. here are a couple pic what you think?

female pic 1 & 2
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male pic 3 & 4
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i have been looking at pictures of the different strains of hypo and the closest is the sunkissed hypo strain is this corect. why the lack of belly pattern?
 
Both animals pictured DO have a belly pattern. It's just faded out. That's something hypo can do. And neither of those animals is sunkissed. They are "just" hypos.
 
I could be wrong but i think that the difference between base color and saddle color in the hypo sunkissed is less than a normal hypo.
 
Sunkissed affects both the pattern AND the color. The head pattern is usually pretty wild looking, the saddles are squared off, the colors are more vibrant and there is often a heavy wash of yellow over the cranial third of the animal that is visible even in the saddles.

Also, anyone you bought a pair of sunkissed from would have told you what they were.
 
Why exactly are you thinking Sunkissed? They do not look Sunkissed at all, and I agree that the seller would have informed you if they were.

They look like Normals to me, perhaps het diffused because of the belly pattern. I suppose their chin marks do look reduced, so I guess maybe I'm just not great at IDing Hypo adults, but they are pretty red and their belly checkers look black to me. If they are het Diffused I'm guessing that's the cause of the red wash/ diminished Blacks.
 
the person that i bought them from did not know much about them. besides that when he bought them he was told they were both female. then they had a clutch of beautiful plump eggs this last spring. he also told me that there were two albinos in the clutch that they came from and that he had them for two and a half years.
 
Jessicat said:
Why exactly are you thinking Sunkissed? They do not look Sunkissed at all, and I agree that the seller would have informed you if they were.

They look like Normals to me, perhaps het diffused because of the belly pattern. I suppose their chin marks do look reduced, so I guess maybe I'm just not great at IDing Hypo adults, but they are pretty red and their belly checkers look black to me. If they are het Diffused I'm guessing that's the cause of the red wash/ diminished Blacks.
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after people said they looked like hypos i started searching the net trying to find pics of hypos and i found a picture on http://www.vmsherp.com/ViewCornsnakes.htm that looks almost identical to this pair. sunkissed, hypo or normals makes no differece to me they are still beautiful beautiful sakes.
 
For color, yes, they match. But they all the other characteristics. Remember that corn snakes are highly highly variable. For example, if you look up my snake Nautley... he's hypo but he's got huge dark borders. They look black from a distance but up close you can see they're actually brown, not black.

The photo on that site for sunkissed shows the heavy yellow wash that your kiddos lack and the square saddles.
 
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