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Normal/wild type?

HerpsOfNM said:
Gekkos, though there is a possibility of emoryi influence, I'd almost virtually rule it out. Though your white balance is off in that recent head shot, you can tell yellow is coming in where his hatchling/juvenile gray background is. The brown blotching is also a characteristic. If you reference the photos I provided above, you can see the "turning of the corner" the coloration starts to take with age. In post #18 (http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1714826&postcount=18) you can see recently hatched vs 1 year later does.

I still think he's a caramel corn; pretty confident in that.
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Sorry about that. Still haven't gotten down the way morphs and colorings work with snakes in particular. Was a tad bit confused as i wasn't 100% aware that caramel becomes more apprent with age as when i purchased my sbake from the breeder they also had baby caramels for sale but it makes sense as the breeder said he was HET for caramel stripe and possible het for a few different morphs including anery, amel and there was actually atleast 4 morphs they indicated possible het for. Sorry for me being so newbish. my first corn. Im much more familiar with leopard gecko morphs lol but thats an entire different species

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The het for caramel changes things a tad, but from the looks of things it appears a caramel slipped through the cracks. The caramel can influence coloration some in heterozygous animals. The hets will still have, in my experience, an orange background with red-orange blotch, but with age some yellow along the upper 1/3 of the body may start to come in and really express itself. That's one of the ways Don Soderberg has been able to distinguish hets from non-hets within some of his caramel pairings. My original male tessera, who's het caramel, albino, amber, and stripe) has a more muted coloration to him, but has a fair amount of yellowing along his upper 1/3 of body - similar to what is seen at times in some older snow and anerythristic type A corns.

I re-paired the above described tessera to my butter stripe this season. I'll make certain to get photos of any caramel and normal babies that hatch for comparison purposes for you. I'm more hopeful for an actual butter tessera or butter stripe tessera, as this pairing has yet to produce either of those in the previous 2 pairings. So odds are high I'll have normal and caramel babies within this season's clutch...again!
 
HerpsOfNM said:
The het for caramel changes things a tad, but from the looks of things it appears a caramel slipped through the cracks. The caramel can influence coloration some in heterozygous animals. The hets will still have, in my experience, an orange background with red-orange blotch, but with age some yellow along the upper 1/3 of the body may start to come in and really express itself. That's one of the ways Don Soderberg has been able to distinguish hets from non-hets within some of his caramel pairings. My original male tessera, who's het caramel, albino, amber, and stripe) has a more muted coloration to him, but has a fair amount of yellowing along his upper 1/3 of body - similar to what is seen at times in some older snow and anerythristic type A corns.

I re-paired the above described tessera to my butter stripe this season. I'll make certain to get photos of any caramel and normal babies that hatch for comparison purposes for you. I'm more hopeful for an actual butter tessera or butter stripe tessera, as this pairing has yet to produce either of those in the previous 2 pairings. So odds are high I'll have normal and caramel babies within this season's clutch...again!
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Oh wow thanks for the very useful information! Its facinating to learn about the ways these morphs and combinations and even hets can influence the outcome. I cant wait to see your hatchlings! :)

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