Genetics question

[BlindOne]

Originally Posted by Snakefood

PS- when you say breed it to a normal, is that an actual "original" cornsnake or just any other cornsnake? (ie: any other morph)

Normal as in a regular patterned corn. I don't know what you'd get if you combined two different morphs, probably normal (wild type) with double hets

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by BlindOne

Normal as in a regular patterned corn. I don't know what you'd get if you combined two different morphs, probably normal (wild type) with double hets

Many of the "new" morphs are the product of breeding 2 different morphs together.

I have some double and triple het garter snakes that produce interesting litters.

[BlindOne]

Originally Posted by infernalis

Many of the "new" morphs are the product of breeding 2 different morphs together.

I have some double and triple het garter snakes that produce interesting litters.

What I understand is

Homozygous X Homozygous = 100% Homozygous

Homozygous X Het = 50% Homozygous 50% Het

Het X Het =25% Homozygous 50% Het 25% Normal

Wouldn't breeding two morphs together produce normal looking double het offspring?

[Dehlida]

Originally Posted by Snakefood

I was looking up the rare morph of "Palmetto" Corn Snakes and found that the only person to breed them sells only females. He states on his site that he does this to limit the flooding onto the market of a new morph.

So I have 2 questions that popped into my head while reading this.

A) If he is holding back the males in order to stop the market from flooding, does this mean that males hold the color/morph gene??

B) what does he do (do you think) with all the males?? You would think eventually he would be flooded himself in male Palmetto's!!

A) He's holding back the males to push back when other people can produce the morph themselves, thus giving him a huge lead over other breeders and market dominance over the morph.

B) He will breed them, and produce hets, and sell some hets, and use them to produce more palmettos. He might work with other morphs- but I'm unsure what this gene would do in the presence of other morphs.

[Snakefood]

Very interesting!! So how long do you think it will take before other people breed enough to bring the price down for $4,000 each to maybe a few hundred??

I would love one as they are the most striking (IMO) of the Corn morphs, but there is NO WAY I can justify a $4K expenditure!!

[Dehlida]

Originally Posted by Snakefood

Very interesting!! So how long do you think it will take before other people breed enough to bring the price down for $4,000 each to maybe a few hundred??

I would love one as they are the most striking (IMO) of the Corn morphs, but there is NO WAY I can justify a $4K expenditure!!

You're looking at probably 6 years or so until they are down south of $500 in my eyes.

[citysnakes]

Originally Posted by Dehlida

You're looking at probably 6 years or so until they are down south of $500 in my eyes.

Unless every breeder holds back every single male they produce... then they'll be 4K forever... ahahaha!