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Ran into an odd situation in breeding this week. We'd bred our now deceased snow male (nice pinks some might have called bubblegum) with a ghost female. Now, according to those genetics, the offspring should have all been anerytheristic het for amel and hypomel. We're still having some emerge from the eggs, but are getting snows and ghosts. Can only assume that the male was also hypomelanistic which is generally considered to be a masked trait in snow corns. We'd only bred him previously with our "normal" looking snow female and usually got half that had her coloration and half that looked like him.

This brought me to an interesting train of thought.... Could all snows possibly be het for hypomelanistic and the pink/bubblegum snows actually be giving us a clue that they are also hypo? That line of thought would indeed account for the previous snow breedings of the 50/50 offspring.

Any assistance along these lines would be appreciated ... especially if anyone else has had similar situations arrise in a breeding project. I'd like to spend a little more time trying to track this down now as well as in the future when we're able to take some of these offspring and breed them back and also into other strains.

Hope to get pics of everything up this weekend (adult female may have to wait as she's in "blue" right now) onto our website.

Thanks,
David Jobes

Stigler, OK
[email protected] Double "D" Reptiles
 
My snow has proven het hypo (or possibly homozygous) and Kat's snow motley also produced a 50/50 clutch of anerys/ghosts.

I don't think all snows are necessarily het or homozygous hypo, but it doesn't surprise me to find out that some (or many) are.

I've also heard that many snows which are homozygous hypo (possibly just certain lines) are what some call "coral snow." Maybe hypo is not masked in snows. ;)

Have you raised any of the snows that have ghost siblings? (How have those turned out?)
 
This is the first clutch we've had the pleasure of seeing this happen with so will be a couple of years before we can see results like you mentioned. I'm currently looking for more adult corns to add to the mix here, expecially since we have to have a male for next year. Hoping that I can locate and purchase 2 or 3 males and 4 to 6 females all with different genetic backgrounds so that I can play with the genetics some more (easier to have these numbers when I'm getting adult mice for 10 cents each.) This one just caught us totally off-guard.

The description of "coral" corn would explain why I saw such a listing on John Cherry's site the other day. I saw your post that postulated the hypo trait may in fact prove to be a codominant trait and that would really mess things up in the future if proven true for a large number of breeders. The amount of time needed to raise offspring to test the possibility of the traits we've seen this week are one reason I've chosen to ask around to see who else has had similar odd experiences and try to get a mental grasp on things.

Have tossed the Q out to John Cherry to see what his thoughts on the issue are, so hopefully will be able to pass that along soon.

David Jobes
Double "D" Reptiles
Stigler, OK
 
Have tossed the Q out to John Cherry to see what his thoughts on the issue are, so hopefully will be able to pass that along soon.
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Great! I'd love to hear anything you pick up on the subject. If there weren't so much to learn it wouldn't really be this much fun. ;)
 
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