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Butter and caramel striped babies

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spirit975

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Really pleased with how this clutch is looking! So far i have 6 caramel stripes, 1 unexpected butter stripe and 2 non-striped caramels :dancer:
Still have 6 more eggs to go.

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A genetic mutation like with everything else. It happens in the wild very rarely, but can't normally propagate to the next generation. Breeding two animals with the same anomaly is how we can get full clutches of these abnormal animals like we see all over the forums.
 
Beautiful! Nice surprise with that butter. Those caramels have lovely color.

Theo's Keeper said:
So what creates the stripe in corn snakes? Is it ever found in the wild?
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A recessive mutation like with the other colors or patterns. While most mutations in cornsnakes change the color, a few change the pattern. This is one of them. It probably does occasionally show up. As long as each parent is het for the trait, the potential exists. Since it wold depend on chance matings, the likelihood is a lot less in the wild compared to captivity, since we breed known carriers or ones that show the trait specifically for that trait.
 
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