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Amel + Amel = glacier?

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sarahdowns52

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Hi guys, I have recently managed to incubate my corn eggs successfully enough that i have 15 little hatchlings from 2 clutches, i know the mistakes i made this year to have lost so many so i will hopefully do better next year but my question is this, what kind of genetics must my parent snakes be carrying to have got the babies i have, my normal (f)/dark amel (m) (ultra?) have given me normals and amels, the amel (f)/dark Amel (m) have managed light amels and some gorgeous little glaciers (snopal) at least thats what i believe them to be, i thought they were snows at first then looked them up and they are not pink enough, have more lilac in them, hence the glacier belief, please help me, i am truly in awe of these creatures and would love to hear any thoughts you may have on the possible genetic make up of these snakes and what the babies may be carrying also, thanks people x
 
It's possible (and very likely) that the amels were also het anery, which would make snows. If they were Snopal/Glaciers, they would have to be het for anery as well as lavender, which is less likely, but obviously still possible. Snows (as well as Snopals) can all have varying ranges of pinks, from having none to being quite pink.

If you have any pictures of them, it would be a lot easier for us to help out. If they haven't shed yet, you'll probably be able to tell more after that.
 
As a hatchling, you're not going to see much, if any, difference between a snow and a glacier. And the chances are much better for an amel X amel pairing to produce snows than for them to not only both be het anery but het lavender too (and if you think all of them are glaciers, then you are expecting both parents to be homozygous lavender (ie - opal) or some terrific odds in the hatchlings that only the snows picked up both het lavender genes from the parents and none of the amels did.
 
Ok, thanks for the views so far, so both would have to be het for anery to produce snows? and what abt getting amels from an amel/normal pairing? is this usual? i thought that normal was dominant over everything? i am so confused over these genetics lol
 
Your title says "Amel + Amel" so that's what they explained. If the pairing was Normal X Amel, then the Normal is het Amel and Anery...while the Amel is het Anery.

Here are 2 types of Snows I hatched out last year. One with lots of pink, and another with none...
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If the female, a normal, was paired with an amel and you have produced snows, then the female is het for amel AND anery and your male amel is het for anery.

Amel and anery are exceptionally common traits that are carried in heterozygous form.
 
sarahdowns52 said:
Ok, thanks for the views so far, so both would have to be het for anery to produce snows? and what abt getting amels from an amel/normal pairing? is this usual? i thought that normal was dominant over everything? i am so confused over these genetics lol
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Your other pairing of normal X amel produced amels because the normal is het for amel. Since you did not get any snows or anerys in that pairing, the normal is most likely not het for anery.
 
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