Corn Genetics Question...

[Kagez28]

i have been doing a lot of researching for just the fact of knowing. can someone correct me if i have ANY info wrong.

i have a miami phase corn snake that is het for candy cane. this is basically a normal that is het for candy cane. miami phase just refers to the area he's line originally came from. or is miami phase genetic? i have read that candy cane morph is just an albino miami phase, os is het for candy cane just het for amelanistic? anyway the female i have is amelanistic. so by breeding my miami phase and my amel... based on a simple punnett square that will give me 50/50 candy cane and het candy cane.

any help would be great.. even if it is just steering me in the right direction.

[Blue Apple Herps]

i have a miami phase corn snake that is het for candy cane.

Technically, an animal cannot be het for candy cane. Candy canes are just a line bred amel. They originated in miami's because miami's had the least amount of orange in their background, which you don't want for nice candy canes.

this is basically a normal that is het for candy cane.

Again, technically a normal het amel.

miami phase just refers to the area he's line originally came from. or is miami phase genetic?

Miami is simply a line bred normal that originated from southern florida. It's genetic are "normal"

i have read that candy cane morph is just an albino miami phase, os is het for candy cane just het for amelanistic?

Candy canes could be considered amel miamis and het for candy cane doesn't really exist.

anyway the female i have is amelanistic. so by breeding my miami phase and my amel... based on a simple punnett square that will give me 50/50 candy cane and het candy cane.

It will give you 50% amel and 50% het amel. There may or may not be some candy canes in there. It all depends on their background color being as white as possible. Even two smoking candy canes can give just regular amels. Likewise, two normal amels can give nice candy canes.

Basically with candy canes vs amels; it's all about the looks. Sometimes you will see people selling reg. amels as candy canes because the parents were candy canes. That doesn't automatically make them candy canes.

Hopefully this makes some sense. If it doesn't let me know.

any help would be great.. even if it is just steering me in the right direction.

A great book to have is the Cornsnake Morph Guide . Also look at this site:

http://www.serpwidgets.com/Morphs/morphs.html

[Kagez28]

thank you that helped alot. i read a little more after my post and found some of my mistakes, but you made every thing very clear...

candy cane is a amel that has little orange in it and more red and white. and het candy cane is actually just het for amel.

well we'll see what happens when my guy and gal make babies.

thanks again

[Blue Apple Herps]

thank you that helped alot. i read a little more after my post and found some of my mistakes, but you made every thing very clear...

candy cane is a amel that has little orange in it and more red and white. and het candy cane is actually just het for amel.

well we'll see what happens when my guy and gal make babies.

thanks again

Glad I helped. Candy cane has as little orange on the background color. Their saddles can be red or sometimes white; known as either red or orange candycanes. So having orange is ok, just so long as it's not on the back ground.

Go here: http://cornsnakes.net/photogalleryhr.php

Click on corn morphs and then on candy cane. The first picture in the upper left has a nice example of a red and orange candy cane, but notice how both have very white, clean backgrounds.