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Green corn snakes

Koallaa3D

Koallaa3D

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Hi, are there green corn snakes, because I haven't seen any, if there is can someone post a picture of one
 
Nope. Mostly they come in shades and varieties of red, yellow, orange, black, and/or white.

edited to add: And brown.
 
When asked at shows about what colors corns come in my response is, "Every color but blue and green. And that is why I want a blue one." LOL
Lacking the ability to make blue pigment, a rare color in nature, corns will most likely never be true blue. But they may be able to "look" blue in the same way bluebirds and the Morpho butterrfly do, through the use of light scattering iridophores in the absence of xanthopores. But that's probably wishful thinking on my part.
A girl can hope.....

Terri

Side note: Lavender is an example of Iridophores doing their magic. I was delighted at Tinley this year when I saw Lavender Scaless Corns. They look exactly like an Okeetee; no Lavender coloration in sight. I thought the breeder had made a mistake in labeling the bins. But he assured me that they were in fact Lavender and all the homozygous Lavender offspring looked that way. Which tells us that the scales obscure or scatter the underlying pigmentation in this morph (something we at some level already knew or suspected.) This gave me confirmed hope for the possibility of a blue or green corn some day.:wavey:
 
Koallaa3D said:
So there isn't actually any green corn snakes ?
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No such thing as a visually solid green corn snake yet to my limited knowledge.

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One of her kids, color is a bit washed out in the pic due to flash
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Not the best pics granted.
Salmon Snows, Bubblegum cornsnakes, Neon, coral snows (poppycorns line particularly) some strawberry forms containing amel & or anery, and a few other re-mixes containing amel & anery & one of the kinds of hypo seem to show some greenish color at some point along the way. Sometimes they develop greenish coloration but then after a few years it disappears; other times they retain the greenish coloration well into adulthood. There is no "green gene". I suspect caramel might, sometimes be a player. Man o man, my fingernails are grody. Will try to find a few better pics.

Here's a couple of other people's green-ish corns:
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123228

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1503518&postcount=6
 
I don't know much about the difference but I heard rat snakes grow a little bit bigger than the Cornsnake. I just got into the ratsnake a little over a month ago, because I accidently purchased them, thinking they were Cornsnakes. But they are beautiful. :)
 
crackerhead said:
Side note: Lavender is an example of Iridophores doing their magic. I was delighted at Tinley this year when I saw Lavender Scaless Corns. They look exactly like an Okeetee; no Lavender coloration in sight. I thought the breeder had made a mistake in labeling the bins. But he assured me that they were in fact Lavender and all the homozygous Lavender offspring looked that way. Which tells us that the scales obscure or scatter the underlying pigmentation in this morph (something we at some level already knew or suspected.) This gave me confirmed hope for the possibility of a blue or green corn some day.:wavey:
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Very interesting. But I'm not sure I completely understand. Are you saying that it appears lavenders are missing some chromatophors and this allows Iridophores to make them look lavender? I know that leucistics are missing most of their chromatophores, but are you saying that lavenders are kind of like leucistics in that some color scales are absent?
 
Koallaa3D said:
Are rat snakes similar to corn snakes? What is the difference ?
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There are many, many species of rats snakes, among them are corns. Corns were called "red rat snakes"" when I was a kid. There are green and red tailed green rats from the US and a few Asian species can be green as well. For the most part, these are not snakes I'd recommend for the beginner.

And CO, by definition, leucism is a genetic mutation that results in the absence of all color pigment.
 
Green rats are really attractive and I love their deep blue tongues, I've been thinking of looking at getting one just as a showcase pet not for any breeding purposes.
 
Chip said:
And CO, by definition, leucism is a genetic mutation that results in the absence of all color pigment.
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Not true Chip.Leucistics can and DO have some specks of skin pigment. My leucistic texas rats have a few black specks here and there...they also have pigment in the eyes..so they are not void of all pigment.
 
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