Theres been alot of talk lately on genetics and diversity in stock. An I think alot of people have missed the in's and out's of breeding recssive genetics. As an example I'll puting out my current Corn snake breeding project, though it would also show how to have diversity and create the wanted morph in all reptiles.

I'm currently working on breeding Butter striped and Sulfur Corns.

First I select the snakes with the genes I'll be working with. I'll be breeding a Carmel male with a Amel Stripe female. This gives me Normal het carmel, Amel, Stripe in F1.

The Next breeding is F1 X F1 to recover the recessive genetics. Giving me a 1/64 chance of getting a butter stripe.

So the chances aren't great but let's say it happens I have now a male butter stripe.

I breed this to a Amel Bloodred, giving me Amels het for Carmel stripe and bloodred in the F1.

Breeding F1 x F1 gives me the following results

9/16Amelanistic 66% poss.het. Caramel
66% poss.het.Bloodred3/16Caramel Amelanistic 66% poss.het. Bloodred3/16Bloodred Amelanistic 66% poss.het. Caramel1/16Caramel Bloodred Amelanistic


A sulfer Male can now be bred to two unrelated females and then half siblings can be bred to recover the recessive triats and keep the blood line fresh.