snow X normal stripe?

[halfwaynowhere]

my sister and her hubby are breeding corns. They have an accidental clutch from their normal stripe female (who up until she started laying eggs, they thought was male, oops!) who was temporarily housed with a snow male. We don't know if they are het for anything, but is there a way to sort of guess what the babies could look like? I guess we could wait until they hatch, but what's the fun in that?

[python.princess]

normals, snows, normal stripes, and snow stripes

[Blue Apple Herps]

normals, snows, normal stripes, and snow stripes

Unless, they're het for a common gene, it will be normals het amel, anery, and stripe.

[MarkS]

They'll all look normal unless the normal stripe is het for something. which with corns is actually pretty likely. I wouldn't be surprised if you got some amels or anerythristics out of the clutch.

[halfwaynowhere]

i've got my fingers crossed for anery... they weren't really planning on breeding this pair, they don't really want normals, they prefer amel varieties (i'm not sure if thats the right term, but they like the ones with no black). And the snow male has some fertility issues, so we aren't even sure this clutch is viable, although the eggs look good so far.

[halfwaynowhere]

none of those eggs were any good... we think there were fertility issues with the male used in the pairing. They are double clutching her, this time with a creamsicle male. We don't really care for creamsicles, but hopefully won't get any from this pairing, unless the female is het for amel, right?

[kc261]

Creamsicles are not pure corns. They are a hybrid with some other species of ratsnake.

Any offspring that you get from this pairing should be labeled as hybrids. It would be dishonest to sell them as pure corns.

[halfwaynowhere]

yeah, we know that, and they all will be labeled and sold as such.
My sister didn't want to "overbreed" her green snow, he's been bred three times this year, so she paired the normal with the creamsicle so he could get a bit of action. Last year's "sunsicles" didn't sell very well, I'm hoping that there is a better turn out... They will be labelled as hybrids, but hopefully they won't show any of the creamsicle coloring...

[kc261]

Hmm. I know very little about breeding corns, but my first guess would be that breeding 3 or 4 times isn't even close to "overbreeding" for a male. Unless he is young or small or something.

Anyone more knowledgeable on the subject want to comment on that?

[halfwaynowhere]

Hmm. I know very little about breeding corns, but my first guess would be that breeding 3 or 4 times isn't even close to "overbreeding" for a male. Unless he is young or small or something.

Anyone more knowledgeable on the subject want to comment on that?

I know that... my sister was just being silly. I told her he's a guy, he won't care if he gets a bit more action this year.

she's got two clutches in the incubator from sunglow females and the green snow. The green snow male was re-paired with one of the sunglows, the other sunglow has been paired with a sunglow motley male. And the normal stripe female was paired with the creamsicle male. So if anything, they should have a decent variety this year...