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Sunglow x Amel= ?

The Amels that would come out are het. for Sunglow right?
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NO.

Sunglow is just a special line-bred morph. Sometimes a breeder will use hypo to get the look, but most sunglows are just Amels bred for a specific look. As such, the sunglow trait is not a gene and you CANNOT have a cornsnake 'het sunglow'.

Your other statement, that you can only get sunglows if you pair two sunglows together, is correct.

To sum it up:
Amel X Amel = 100% Amel
Amel X Sunglow = 100% Amel (NOT het sunglow)
Sunglow X Sunglow = Sunglow

-Kat
 
Sunglows can be produced by typical amels if they come out lacking all white. Primarily, sunglow + sunglow will produce the best sunglow babies. There are also some who have bred hypo into the mix to increase the brightness of the colours. If you want to make the nicest sunglows, I would breed to another sunglow.
 
Kat said:
NO.


Your other statement, that you can only get sunglows if you pair two sunglows together, is correct.


-Kat
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Kat is wrong. You can get sunglows from breeding two amels together. You don't have, to have Sunglows to get Sunglows. It just betters your chances. Breeding a Sunglow x Sunglow does not mean ALL the babies will be Sunglow either.
 
Alright, I oversimplified and thus stand corrected... Since sunglow is a physical description and not a genetic trait, as long as the snake looks like a sunglow, it is a sunglow. The problem is, it can be difficult to tell as a hatchling how a cornsnake will turn out as an adult. And since some breeders use different recipies to make sunglows, sometimes they don't mix well. Line-bred crossings aren't as predictable as genetic traits and only generalizations can be made.

You still cannot have a cornsnake 'het sunglow' (nor het miami, okeetee, upper keys, candycane, or any other line-bred morph).

-Kat
 
It is easier if you think of it in terms of breeding an albino beagle to an albino collie. The puppies will all be albino, and some will look more like dad, some more like mom, most in between. But they will not be het for collie or beagle, because it is not one genetic recessive trait that makes them a collie or beagle. The same is true for other "breeds" of corns that were produced by many generations of breeding (by humans or Mother Nature) for a particular look, or other multi gene qualities, such as those types mentioned by Kat.
 
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