What morph is this corn?

[Snakehead]

Snakehead-- While that is true, such percentages are only estimates, not guarantees. Though a heterozygous x homozygous pairing should produce 50% homo offspring, there's no guarantee that just 25% will be homo, or even if 75% will be homo. Just like, if you pair het x het, there's no guarantee you'll get any homo offspring, even though you should get about 25% homo.

The reason I consider a test breeding with a known homozygous the only way to know for sure is that it's the only pairing that will really tell you, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what's going on... Because a homo x homo pairing will produce nothing but homo offspring. Likewise, if there are normals in the clutch, you know she can't be homo for the gene in question.

Unless I misunderstand what you mean, hypos in the clutch should be easy to pick out. Normal hatchlings are distinctively very dark in color, where hypo hatchlings are, naturally, very light, often a lighter red in color. The confusion comes as the animals grow and their colors develop. Before all of that, though, differentiating between the two should be easy.

Just my take on the subject...

You are exactly right! I wasn't trying to correct you, as much as I was just letting Terry know that even if no known hypo was available, she might still be able to make some judgements about her snake if she bred it with one of the male offspring. But your correct, it would be better to find a known Hypo. My breedings have fallen within a good range of the expected percentages of offspring. Still your right it's theory, not law. There can alsways be surprises and fluctuations. If the Mom is only het then she could pick the wrong male with no Hypo gene and be back to square one. From the pics it looks like probably normal to me, but from her discription of brownish borders it sounds like a hypo. It's difficult to tell without close up detailed photos.

 

[Reptileman81]

Oh, I am fully aware of the variation in skin tones of Homo sapiens, but I am also aware that some cameras, depending upon the lighting and the color scheme of objects being photographed, can incorrectly tint a photo a certain color. I am pretty sure that the shirt your daughter is wearing isn't pink with red and purplish blue print. That, or you accidentally washed it with something red that bled and stained that entire load. I judge the tint of photos not by one or two objects in that photo, but by the photo as a whole and all the objects contained therein.

I do my best to make sure that photos I post here and elsewhere are as accurate as possible. I have actually been known to decrease the intensity of colors a little just to avoid being accused of falsifying the coloration of the snakes I own, breed and sell. There are some unscrupulous people out there that will do whatever it takes to make a sale, including altering photos to make a snake appear more desirable to actually staining the snake's skin to make it something it is not.

I am sorry if I am harping on this subject but you posted a photo and inquired as to the morph of the snake as you had some doubts. As I have demonstrated, morph identification sometimes isn't an easy thing to do so a proper representation of the snake in question is required or else any educated guesses are really worthless.

I have a story to go along with the staining of a snake. About 12 years ago a local pet shop that is no longer in business had a adult ball python for sale. At the time I was interested in them but now I know better lol. Anyways the ball had a kinda ceramic blue water bowl in its cage. When the sales person went to take out the ball my eyes got really wide. Ever white part of the snakes was now a intense blue like you might find in Condro's. I knew it was only temporary but I had to have it. About a month later with its first shed all of the blue was gone. I was just left with a greenish shedding. One of the many snakes I have owned with a crazy story behind it. One I will never forget.