Ever seen one this dark before?

This is the corn snake I got a while back and with each shed he gets much darker.
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He is really dark! Maybe he's not even a corn? it's kinda hard to tell in those pics. That mouse looks way to big...imo.

I'm fairly confident he is either a corn or corn cross. He is wild caught, has reddish saddles and an arrow on his head.

Also, the mouse might of been slightly on the large side but it was roughly 16% of body weight of my snake. The pics make it look much larger than it is.

yeah, I was thinking it was starting to look like a rat, cause it was so big. it's going to be an anvil...lol

That's pretty dark. The snake looks skinny, but could be the pics. Better pics would also help, but I'd breed it. I've often wondered when a hypermelanistic corn would show up, maybe you hit the jackpot!

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Originally Posted by Blue Apple Herps

That's pretty dark. The snake looks skinny, but could be the pics. Better pics would also help, but I'd breed it. I've often wondered when a hypermelanistic corn would show up, maybe you hit the jackpot!

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That would be really awesome if he were a new morph! I'll try to get some better pics in a day or two.

For a wc how tame is he?

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

For a wc how tame is he?

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Tame? What's that lol! He is very feisty, he strikes at me almost every time I handle him. Only once has it been open mouthed though. He has never struck at me through the tub and has calmed down a lot since I got him. Hopefully with a little more time and work he'll calm down some more. I don't mind too much though, at least I know he's a tough one.

Never seen one that. Color before but the color looks really awesome I have to say

Lets suppose for a minute he is a hypermelanistic corn and it proves genetic, would anyone buy his offspring?

Sure, I bet people would buy them, though corn morphs tend to run much cheaper than ball morphs.

Also keep back some of his daughters if he doesn't prove genetic. A lot of corn morphs are recessive.

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Originally Posted by loonunit

Sure, I bet people would buy them, though corn morphs tend to run much cheaper than ball morphs.

Also keep back some of his daughters if he doesn't prove genetic. A lot of corn morphs are recessive.

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I was thinking it would be recessive, because hypos and amels are. Now I just have to decide how many corns I can house, lol. And I guess I need to brush up on my corn morphs and values to see where this could possibly take me.

This thread on may be of interest you.

http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/...10931&p=132915

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Originally Posted by John1982

This thread on may be of interest you.

http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/...10931&p=132915

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Wow, really never realized how many variants there are by locale. Still none of those seem quite as dark as mine, the one post of the snake from Hernando Co. Fl. is one of the closest but I feel mine is at least a few shades darker. The one from Edmonson Co. Ky. a little further down the page looks a lot closer. Still not quite though.

There are like 2 corn snake morphs that aren't reccesive. So odds are if it is a morph, it's reccesive. Just saying.

Tessera is dominant and while motley and stripe are recessive, they interact differently with eachother if there is no copy of the normal morph, however I forget which is dominant over the other (I believe that stripe is dominant over motley). What two were you talking about Andrew?

That's interesting stuff how the stripe and motley work when paired.

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Originally Posted by gsarchie

Tessera is dominant and while motley and stripe are recessive, they interact differently with eachother if there is no copy of the normal morph, however I forget which is dominant over the other (I believe that stripe is dominant over motley). What two were you talking about Andrew?

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There is one called buff. i think it was found in germany and it might not even be in the states yet. I believe it is dominant.