"Wide Stripe"

1.0 adult Wide Stripe. One of Sean Niland's original two males. From vmsherp.com . Mentioned on page 101 of the Cornsnake Morph Guide 2011.

Additional (more) pictures

I ran across "Tracks", the widestripe male in early 2010, on Sean's website, where he was available. At the time I did not know much about genetics, and still do not, so please treat any information regarding genetics I attempt to share with a grain of speculation. Tracks has only a slight hint of yellow on his nose and on his neck next to his jaw. Aside that, he is lacking yellow anywhere else.

After going back and looking at him several times over a period of 6 weeks, and seeing nobody had offered him a home, arrangements were made, and he moved in with me.

Joe Novak had let me take on care of a female "Blue" dilute motley around the same time. "Bluebelle" is Anery A, and has very deep well defined yellow running down her side, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the length of her body. She has shown only a slight hint of pink in her coloration in early March, when coming out of brumation. I mention this because most of the anery a dilute cornsnakes I have seen express much more pink or mauve coloring.

The first one has a smudge nose! The first picture threw me off completely because of the angle.

They are a beautiful pair.

he is very nice, I love the dilute stuff also. I think that's a 1st to take a pic with the morph guide!!!!!
John

Bluebelle & Tracks hit it off immediately, and repeatedly. Here's some which hatched in August of 2010.
Female. 51 grams.
Female. 37 grams.
Male. 47 grams.
Male. 47 grams.

Female. 37 grams.
Male. 52 grams.
Male. 60 grams. Holdback.
Female. 52 grams.

Male. 52 grams.
Female. 41 grams.




This year, Tracks went with a non-motley Anery B female not het for stripe. The babies are pipping today. Strong visible pattern mutation when mixed with Anery b.

This year Bluebelle went with a very-striped motley male which is homozygous for anery A, among other genes. All of the offspring look like normal anery motleys; 2 of the 17 babies show slight variation of pattern ("q-tipping"), the longest "q-tip" is about 3/4ths of an inch. I believe this means Bluebelle is Not het for stripe. It also seems that Wide Stripe is somehow a 'partial dominant pattern gene(?)'. But I am still new to cornsnakes. In late October of this year, I will have been keeping & breeding cornsnakes for 3 years.

Thanks for looking and for any comments, tips, & pointers.
dp

He is so handsome!

Pretty boy! I actually just produced a hypo with the wide stripe this past year. I hadn't seen another quite like her until your boy! I was planning on starting breeding trials in a couple of years, so it's fun to see that you have already started that. I started a thread about her:
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102907

This is one of the latest pictures I have of her: