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True corns

Jicin

Jicin

Corn love
A question about what's a pure bred corn, with no other breeds of snakes bred into the line.

It was suggested to me a strawberry corn is a cross. He mentioned the latin name of the snake but i can't quite remember it.

He also said striped snakes are a result from crossbreading. One way to know if you dealt with a true corn or not would be checking for belly checkers. He suggested that if the belly wasn't checkerd, its blood has been mixed with other snakes in the past.

Is this true? Can anyone point me towards some info on this subject?

It's true mixing snakes can get quite beautifull results. But are there any 100% pure corns left? All my snakes were sold to me as 100% corn and i'd be quite dissapointed if they were sold to be under a false pretence. Not to mention i find this topic very interesting.
 
I'm not familiar with strawberry corns, but I CAN tell you that a striped corn is a purebred (Pantherophis guttata, previously known as Elaphe guttata guttata), as well as the motley morph and bloodreds (all 3 morphs have patternless bellies). These morphs are a result of simple recessive genes and NOT of cross-breeding with another species.
And to say that if the belly is checkered is a guarantee of a purebred corn isn't true either, as I believe some of the hybrids also have checkered bellies (but I'm not that familiar with the hybrids either but I'm sure one of the experts will correct me if I'm wrong).
 
im definately not an expert, but the jungle corn i have is obviously a hybrid and her belly is mostly checkered underneath.if that helps
 
I made a little mistake. I ment that, when you have a corn who does *not* have a checkered belly it's not a 'fullblood corn'. Naturally there many other snakes who have checkered bellies. And so a bloodred would not be a full blood corn but rather crossed with a different breed in the early stages.
 
i am also curoius what does a natural corn look like. I assume okkatee region sort of look. but i would love to know for sure x
 
No Jicin, a bloodred corn, as well as the other non-checkered bellied morphs, i.e. motley and stripe, IS a full-blood corn snake and NOT mixed with a different species, even early on. They are caused by simple recessive genes, just like amelanism and anerythrism.
 
I would consider this normal corn (wild caught) to be typical of a natural corn.
 
A smidge OT

:-offtopic

Hi Jicin,
As you're from the Netherlands you might want to contact a really good breeder I've bought a snake from recently. He really took the time to explain everything I wanted to know about the little snake I bought from him even though he was busy at the show. He's at www.hognose.nl and his name is Jan Nijenhuis. He can explain anything to do with genetics you need to know in Dutch which might make it easier and clearer to understand (even though you Dutchies speak English so beautifully!!) So sorry for not actually answering any question but I hope this contact might help...and he has some beautiful and interesting snakes you might like to add to your collection!
Good Luck,
Adèle
 
Thanks for the link.

I'm really interested from hearing it from people that know it firsthand. Rather then heard it from someone who heard it from someone ect. I'll contact him.
 
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