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Horridus

Horridus

Pantherophis my a**
A friend of mine collected an adult gravid female corn in Okeechobee Co. FL late this summer. When the eggs hatched the offspring looked like normals & Anerythristic A corns. (See below photo taken right after first shed)
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There were 16, 6 of which looked anery. I obtained all of these plus two of the normals and Mom. After a few meals 3 of the 6 started to look different. I chalked this up to variation and paid little attention to it. When they were fed you could see rose color in the saddles and the interstitial skin on their sides. Now they look VERY different from the others, here are some photos (sorry for the quality) Tell me what you guys think. There is obviously pink/rose in the saddles so I wouldn't guess them to be anery A. But I have not seen hundreds so maybe they are. Regardless this appearance seems to intensify with each shed so I am excited to see what they look like in a few months.

***After looking at these photos on the post, they don't really capture the color I am talking about I will try to take some photos outside tomorrow and post them***

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IMHO the oddballs look like hybrids to me. The color is off as is the head and saddle pattern.
 
I dunno, I think I'm seeing an anery and two normals. Granted one of them has a clean gray background and only a slight hint of orange, which makes it seem "different" than its other normal sibling. IMO it's most definitely not anerythristic, not with that much red in its saddles.

Since the female bred in the wild, who's to say how many males bred her and what the fathers of each of these individuals looked like. It may be that the two different-looking normals had very different-looking fathers. Looks like that odd one might make some nice miamis though. :)

Keep us posted on how they are coloring up. It should be neat to see if that one gains lots of red and keeps the clean gray background color.
 
I don't think hybrid but......

It is possible that a male Yellow Rat bred her in addition to a heterozygous for Anerythristic male corn. I agree that the head looks more quadrivittata than corn. However, the ventral pattern is 100% corn and the others have a more classic spearpoint head marking. These animals did not have this appearance when they hatched. Here are a couple of other photos of the clutch right after thier first shed. The reddish/rose color has only appeared with size and age which leads me to believe that it is something other than a normal corn. I guess time will tell and I will keep shooting pics after each shed and post any that show considerable change. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to infer that I have some sort of new "amazing" morph here just wanted some opinions other than my own because I kept telling myself I wasn't seeing this color seeping into the blotches and sides. I was happy just to have a fresh Anerythristic A bloodline to work with, and it appears that three of these are just that. Thank you for your thoughts on this.

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