Amel het??

This is my amel corn, I have two questions

http://img190.imageshack.us/i/p6070146.jpg/

1)This particular of the belly can be caused by an het for bloodred?

http://img398.imageshack.us/i/p6300108.jpg/

2)the red is replacing the orange, is normal??

(she has a little bit yellow only near de head)

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Originally Posted by luca

This is my amel corn, I have two questions

http://img190.imageshack.us/i/p6070146.jpg/

1)This particular of the belly can be caused by an het for bloodred?

http://img398.imageshack.us/i/p6300108.jpg/

2)the red is replacing the orange, is normal??

(she has a little bit yellow only near de head)

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When someone says a snake is het for something it means they have the genetics to make that certain morph.It does nothing to their patterns ;).It also means you need 2 snakes that are het for the same morph before you can produce one.I hope this helps :D

I know what is an het, i study medicin, but is not really true, for example, observing eyes and belly can be seen particulars that reconduce to an etherozigosis (for example the outcrossed), because a recessive gene could be have a partial penetration in fenotype when is sufficiently strong.(like anemy in human)

I know there's het indicators for some BPs but I dono about corn snakes.

Edit: Almost forgot something. It's very common for corns to be het for unknown morphs since they have been so widely bred and distributed, the only way to really tell is to prove it out.

het for bloodred (named outcross bloodred) is a visual eterozygous form because of the incomplete dominant genetic of that morph (like pastel/superpastels in Bp)...
in that case i think isn't an amel het. fire, but only a "common" amelanistic one.

Yup looks like an amel corn belly and back. There is no way to tell what it is het for unless you specifically were told by the breeder or were given paper work to back up it's genetics. A LOT of corns are hets due to people breeding them, cross breeding, inbreeding, etc with them. I've seen many that are easily triple hets. Your snake may be het for a few things. Only way to find out is to breed it to another.

The belly and back both look just like my albino (amel) but I have NO idea if he is het for anything.

Everything about your corn is just a normal amel. The belly does not look to be het blood, but plenty of het blood corns have a normal belly. Is there any reason you suspect it may be het blood?

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Originally Posted by gianni

het for bloodred (named outcross bloodred) is a visual eterozygous form because of the incomplete dominant genetic of that morph (like pastel/superpastels in Bp)...
in that case i think isn't an amel het. fire, but only a "common" amelanistic one.

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I think bloodred is somewhat incomplete dominant because you can have het markers, but there are also plenty of het bloods that don't have any of the markers, and likewise some that do have markers that aren't het.

I don' think the pastel/super pastel analogy really fits here, as thats a clear cut, example. Whereas with the bloods, its not really a true incomplete dominance.