I am learning that there are lots of color variations in the corn snakes... What exactly is a okeetee... is Okeetee a color? What is the wild phase, Miami phase? I am getting totally confused...I thought I bought a baby okeetee corn, but now I am not so sure. Only thing i am sure of is that it is a corn snake... Would someone please explain about this? THANKS....connie the confused grannie!!!!
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Dumb question but here goes....
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Billybobob
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An okeetee phase is a wild type that has nice colour and wide black borders around the saddles. A Miami phase is also a wild type but it has a silver or grey background colour and red saddles. Hope that helps.
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One more thing; these forums have a search function, if you do a search you will be able to find threads that have similar questions to what you may have and the answers will already be there,
Roy Munson
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connie said:
Okeetee, wild-type, and Miami are all types of normal corn snake. A normal corn is one that is not expressing any of the known color and pattern mutations.
Okeetee-phase corns are selectively bred for bright orange backgrounds, and bright red saddles with thick black borders. The belly is supposed to have a clean black and white checkerboard look. They are named for a hunt club in S. Carolina where exceptional corns of this look occur naturally. There is contention about the term though. If your snake, or its recent ancestors didn't come from the Okeetee Hunt Club, or Jasper County SC, you are better off using the term "Okeetee-phase" than just "Okeetee." (IMHO.)
Miami Phase corns are selectively bred for a clean grey to tan background, and red saddles with well defined borders. There are a lot of corns that fit this description in the Miami area, but similar coloration can be found in many parts of corns' range.
Wild-type is synonymous with normal.
Hope this helps.
Billybobob
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Roy Munson said:
Is a well defined border really one of the defining factors of a Miami. I have never thought that was a requirement for being a Miami.
On a side note i do not consider tan background color miamis true miamis unless they have at least a noticeable amount of grey in there back ground colour. If they don't have a noticeable amount of grey they look like bland normal corns and not at all like my image of a Miami phase. This is my personal opinion and is not meant to offend any one that has miamis that have tan backgrounds.
Roy Munson
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Billybobob said:
I think it is, unless I'm just letting my preference creep into my definition.
My preference is for a silver/grey background color too, but almost every description of Miami I've ever seen includes the tans.
Billybobob
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Roy Munson said:
Yeah i know that most people deffiniton of miami includes the tan ones to but i just wanted to state my opinon on them.