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jessicashallperish

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I've not posted in literally YEARS, due to rudeness and shortly after selling 98% of my reptiles during a move, but ive recently started to get back into them.

I am buying a pair, not a breeding pair, but a male and female corn, for possible future breeding/just to look pretty in my living room enclosures.

ANYWAY. The current owner is unsure what either of them are, and i agree. He says he was told the male is a Blizzard, but he is SO YELLOW, i almost thought jungle but his head is very very very corn.... and the female a snow, and she looks snow-ish but is also ridiculously yellow. He does not remember who produced either, but they are from a corn snake breeder online, he thinks SMR but isnt sure because its been about 7 years since he purchased them.

here they are, first is female, second is male. i would love to here what anyone thinks they are, when i get them i will take much better photos.
 

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Some blizzards have a little bit of yellow, but I've never seen anything like that. I'd vote snow.
 
They look too yellow to be a snow and too white to be a butter but I've seen some people posting pics on the net of butters that are that white and snows that are that yellow :shrugs:

The colors do remind me of the adult Albino Cal King I had.
 
Very pretty.
I agree - not like any snow or blizzard I've ever seen.
Can't remember seeing anything like that on the SMR site either.
I suppose you could e-mail him just to be sure, however.
 
I wonder if these pictures were taken with flash. I know my honey looks super yellow with the flash. It's possible that these are not this yellow in person, but rather it was just the camera exaggerating the yellow.
 
I have a Blizzard who is similar to the female, his yellow is lighter, much lighter but similar. It will be interesting to see more photos when you get them.
 
I have pics from the seller, flash on and flash off, not a whole lot of difference tbh. I wont have them until about 8 pm tonight so pics will come later than that. i will post the non flash photos here shortly (gotta get them from my phone to my laptop first..) lol
 
just got these photos yesterday, because i want to know what they look like, you know? lol these are without flash, a little more "natural" looking i think. who knows lol
 

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Lol, browsing craigslist and I happened upon the seller of your two snakes. Small world! I didn't even notice you're in Lancaster.
 
Well, they are quite pretty regardless, but the majority of yellow pigment that is expressed in corn snakes comes from diet; some people even inject carrot juice into feeder mice to increase yellow coloration...OR it could be that they carry the "yellow jacket" gene..?
They are stunning animals, and will certainly make nice display pets!
~Beau
 
BeauBoi said:
...the majority of yellow pigment that is expressed in corn snakes comes from diet
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This is often repeated, but never has been proven to my knowledge. In fact, the only attempted testing of this idea that I'm aware of was inconclusive at best. http://serpwidgets.com/main/carotenes

I'm not saying carotenoids can't or won't affect color saturation to some extent, but to say that the majority of yellow pigment comes from diet ignores the plethora of corns with vibrant yellows that eat the exact same wholesale frozen mice as all their yellow-deficient counterparts.
 
Kevin S. said:
This is often repeated, but never has been proven to my knowledge. In fact, the only attempted testing of this idea that I'm aware of was inconclusive at best. http://serpwidgets.com/main/carotenes

I'm not saying carotenoids can't or won't affect color saturation to some extent, but to say that the majority of yellow pigment comes from diet ignores the plethora of corns with vibrant yellows that eat the exact same wholesale frozen mice as all their yellow-deficient counterparts.
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Which is why I suggested at the bottom of my post that it could be genetic...
~Beau
 
I could certainly believe snow on the female, but that's a lot of yellow, I'm not sure how that male could be 'blizzard' maybe 'het blizzard' and the guy misremembered?
Maybe he's a product of amel and anery in a really saturated Okeetee genetics?
 
ops hit send too early... Either way they are pretty flashy snakes! it looks like the yellow is sitting where the black would be in a heavily bordered okeetee.. i'ts not in the background color like on my amel (okeetee looking) girl.
Could a high white amel have been involved? their background color is very low yellow.... though how you get the yellow where the black would be....
 
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