Looking for a future boyfriend...

[Linds]

Well, I pretty much don't keep what I'm not breeding, with a few very rare exceptions. I have my little female albino corn and would like to pair her up with something. Now I am not familiar with all the billions of morphs out there, and was hoping someone would be able to give me a few suggestions. I am looking for something that isn't another albino, but will produce something nice when bred to one. Keeping in mind I do not like a lot of white (I think it makes them look sickly, don't really care if the babies have white however as I won't be keeping them), and am trying to stay away from earthtones - I have enough boids to fill those shoes, the only reason I have a corn (and milk) are because of the *bright* colours. If you could also post a pic along with your suggestion that would be much appreciated, if not I am sure I can find one online :)

<img src="http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/509/22corn.jpg">

[Simon]

Assuming that your amel here isn't het for anything.
Then breeding anything to it other than an amel will result in all normal hatchlings that are het amel and whatever the father is.

So in all the F1s are going to be normal hets (and normals are of the ground colors that you don't like)

For example, if you breed an anery to the amel you have here will result in all being normals het amel, anery (snow) Keeping those back together will then result in some snows, which again you hate.

Since you like the brilliant colored snakes, it is highly recommanded by me to find her another amel to pair her up with in order to produce lots of brilliant colored snakes (and if you're not able to sell them at least you're willing to keep them right?)

So amel male is your choice.

Either a reverse okeetee male, sunglow male, candy cane male or a regular amel would be a good choice for you snake plus trying to meet your requirement as much as I can~~

Getting a butter corn would also be good.
Butters = Amel & Caramel. So by breeing a butter male to your amel female, it would result in Amel het caramel and right now from what we normally see and what we assume right now is that the caramel genes does affect the genotype a bit making the F1s a bit more yellow than the regular amels that hatch out without the het caramel part)

So if
butter x amel = amel het caramel
which also suits your critiera a bit~~

Hope this helped~

[Gregg M]

Damn Linds,
I thought had a chance to hook up with you when I came to Canada.......LOL

[BoidKeeper]

Lavender, F1 normals, F2 Opals.
Cheers,
Trevor

[sapphire_moon]

Hey simon, I was wondering if you breed a bloodred to an amel will that intensify the red in it?

Linds if you want something colorful try the bloodred, lol

[Simon]

sapphire moon,

breeding a bloodred to an amel will result in all normal het amel bloodred. It will not intensify the red in the F1, but in the F2s you wil have a chance in getting Amel bloodreds. Those are really nice and bright.

This is an amel bloodred male:
<img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid79/padcbe492072099599ba5c68cafdeef18/fb13c209.jpg">

<img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid79/p446231481ce6ae0a12eb2ca3d117bafe/fb13c1f6.jpg">

This is a hatchling amel bloodred
<img src="http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid79/pb4a189ef31c2043267ac1f5206ef08d3/fb13c1e4.jpg">

[sapphire_moon]

hmmmmm sounds like my first breeding project, lol. :)

[Invictus]

I'd go for the bloodred as well.

[Auskan]

Ok, let's start from the very beginning (a very good place to start....LOL). I've figured out that F1 & F2 are referring to the first and second generations, but what does the F stand for? Also, Simon, in your first post to Linds you said that if she bred the Amel to an Anery, she would end up with Snows. Given that an anery is grey/dark and Snow is all white, how does this happen? Or can Anery also be used to describe a Snow because of the Snow's lack of red pigment?

[marisa]

No it cannot.

Anery removes red/orange
Amel removes grey/black

So when breeding two normals that are double het anery/amel or otherwise known as het snow, you combine the traits to create an animal that lacks red/orange as well as black and brown.

Although this is my beginers explanation and maybe off. I am still learning genetics because I suck at them. LOL

Marisa

[Linds]

Thanks for the suggestions. Stil haven't found anything I like though. I was hoping for maybe something nice and colourful het amel will produce such and such. Even many regular amels have too much white for my tastes, so candy canes and the like are out. If the babies are white, it doesn't bother me since I won't be keeping any. Basically I just want to keep two nice looking corns for myself, but that will produce something appealing to others, appearance-wise or hets that will lead to something, not just be mixed up normals if I can help that. I think Okeetees are some of the nicer looking corns out there, but was just wondering if maybe there was something I might like more that would be able to produce something cool with an amel. LOL corn morphs you seem to be able to concoct all sorts of crazy things :p Maybe I'll find a striped male or Okeetee...

[Dozer]

ya lindsssss, that corn lookin' stellar ;) lol

is that the 'bar sold' corn? :P

Mike

[SnowSnake]

Auskan: I think F meens 'fial' or 'filial' i'm not sure... biology was a long time ago :P

Linds: If you like okeetee or striped you could get an okeetee or striped het amel so some of the babies will be amel and you might get okeetee or striped as well.

[Linds]

Originally posted by Dozer

is that the 'bar sold' corn? :P

Mike

LOL ya don't recognize her? :p That's the pic I took of her the day after ;) She's doing great and growing like a weed :w


SnowSnake,
Yeah that's likely what I will end up going with. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on something I might like better since I will only ever own two corns :eek:

[Lisa]

You could try going the frosted creamsicle route, crossing with an grey rat snake. (E. guttata guttata X E. obsoleta spiloides)

here's a pick of an amel and a frosted creamsicle. the frosted is the lighter coloured one.

http://snakes.geekgrrl.ca/nadia/randa-12.jpg

[Bighead]

btw, the F does stand for filial. :)

[Linds]

Frosted Creamsicles still have a lot of white. As I mentioned, even most regular amels have too much white for my tastes. I'm so happy my little girl isn't one of them or I likely wouldn't have bought her. I am also not in to creating hybrids. I want pure Elaphe guttata guttata o>

[drewlowe]

Linds here's a good site that will let you see plenty of different morphs.

http://www.cornsnake.net/new/cornprice.php3

I like the http://www.cornsnake.net/gallery/gallery.php3?id=15 It's not quite white more silverish.

or the stripped amels are quite bright like this one or you could go for sunglow. http://www.cornsnake.net/gallery/gallery.php3?id=32