can you breed okeetees?

[Jay633]

hi i was just wondering if theres any other snake you can breed okeetees to. and what babies will they make?? Thanks

 

[gelshark]

you can breed them to king snakes and you will get jungle corns
hope that helps

 

[CULEBRA85]

U can also breed them to a emory rat snake with the rite hets and get creamsicle beasties....like my big guy crush.

 

[Fatman608]

I would suggest buying a morph guide book.

 

[bitsy]

U can also breed them to a emory rat snake with the rite hets and get creamsicle beasties....like my big guy crush.

That would only work if the OP's snake was a Reverse Okeetee.

An Okeetee is either a specialist locale Normal, or a selectively-bred Normal that has wide, clean black saddle outlines. Unless it's het for anything, if you breed it with any other Corn morph you'll get Normals - some of which *might* look like Okeetees. Your best bet would be to buy another Okeetee and see if you can produce even nicer ones, or a Reverse Okeetee (the Amel version of an Okeetee) to test whether your snake is het for Amel.

The only guaranteed way of getting something other than Normals or more Okeetees, is by trying a hybrid mix as per gelshark's suggestion. However, as Kings and Milks are cannibalistic, the mating process can be a bt fraught and I wouldn't recommend it as your first breeding experience.

 

[ShenziSixaxis]

I think a better question is what morphs do you want to produce?

 

[ZoologyGirl]

I think I'm a little confused by the question, so I'll echo Shenzi and ask what are you looking to produce?

By "other snakes" do you mean other species of snakes? Like has already been mentioned about breeding cornsnakes to cali kings or emoryi, etc...

Or by "other snakes" do you mean other morphs of cornsnakes, to produce other morphs?

 

[Jay633]

yeah sorry i meant other morphs of the cornsnake, i really want to get an amelanistic corn, but if the okeetee isnt meant for breeding, theres nothing more than buying other corn snakes and expanding my pet size!

 

[Shiari]

Okeetees are 'meant' to breed more okeetees. They are a special look of 'normal'. If you want amel, you'll have to find snakes that either carry it hidden (heterozygous) or are showing the trait (homozygous).

 

[Jay633]

yeah, how do you know if its HET or the other type homo?
We used to have this one til it escaped my little brothers tank
it looked like this

 

[ZoologyGirl]

yeah, how do you know if its HET or the other type homo?

If it is showing the trait it is homozygous recessive.
An amel is homo for amel.
A butter is homo for amel and caramel
etc...

If it is heterozygous (het) it does not display the trait, but carries 1 recessive allele for it.

Each trait has 2 alleles which can either be dominant or recessive. It takes 1 allele from the father and 1 from the mother. In order for (most) traits to be visible a snake must present 2 recessive alleles

So for the amel gene the possibilities could be: (where A = dominant allele, a = recessive allele)

AA = Homozygous dominant = Normal color
Aa = Heterozygous = Normal color
aa = Homozygous recessive = Amel color

 

[Jay633]

ooo i see, it makes sense.