Corn hets

[BOWSER11788]

I assume they are just like ball python breeding when it comes to dom, co-dom and resissive. Ok the person i got my female corn from, her eggs just hatched. The dad was albino and mom(my new one) was normal. Ok she sent me pics of the babies, 10 in total. a few were albino, most were normal and 2x were a dull brown but the pattern was pinkish. instead of orange. Is this normal or were the parents het for something. I asked her were she got em from and she said her friend use to breed colubrids.

[Dracoluna]

I assume they are just like ball python breeding when it comes to dom, co-dom and resissive. Ok the person i got my female corn from, her eggs just hatched. The dad was albino and mom(my new one) was normal. Ok she sent me pics of the babies, 10 in total. a few were albino, most were normal and 2x were a dull brown but the pattern was pinkish. instead of orange. Is this normal or were the parents het for something. I asked her were she got em from and she said her friend use to breed colubrids.

Pretty much the same though there are few dominant genes in corns. Almost everything you deal with will be recessive. The male would have been pure albino/amelanistic (aa) and based on that outcome, your normal female is het for albino/amelanistic (Aa) at the least. If you can get a picture of the coloration on the 2 that seemed more pinkish, I might be able to tell if something else was at work there though just like with ball pythons, normals have a very large range of color/patterns. They will range in color from deep reds to orange to what I would call a buckskin color. All are normal in terms of genetics but there are some line-bred varieties such as the okeetees and buckskins. Genetically, they are normal but by line-breeding, you can go after a specific look. Here's a calculator for playing with genetics on corns to help out as well: http://www.corncalc.com/

[BOWSER11788]

thanks, I asked her for a pic, but she hasnt responded yet.

[Blue Apple Herps]

AFAIK, tessera is the only dominant gene, the rest are recessive. There are genes that are co-dominant to each other, eg ultra and amel, stripe and motley, but you still need two mutated copies to see a phenotype.

It sounds like the dam is definitely het albino, which is not uncommon in corns. It's a fairly common gene floating in the gene pool. My guess is that the 2 odd ones were likely just not fully colored up.

[BOWSER11788]

thanks, i still want to show you pic, but she hasnt sent me squat

[BHReptiles]

My guess would be that she was het amel. Being het amel/anery is pretty common these days.