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When you have a normal het amel and anery, do you call it normal het snow?

Lyion

Lyion

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So, I was recently wondering about something. When you guys have a snake with the hets to produce a codominant morphs, what do you display it as? For example if you had a charcoal het amel, cinder would you display it as charcoal het amel,cinder or charcoal het peppermint?

Personally, I would do the first rather than the latter. I wish there was a universally known way to simply go:

Charcoal het Amel<Peppermint>Cinder

and have people know that I meant that those two could create Peppermint. Oh well, C'est la vie!

But what do you guys generally do?
 
I usually depends upon who you are talking to. For those that I know have a good grasp of corn snake genetics/morphs, I would use normal het snow/charcoal het peppermint/amel het plasma, but marking something for sale or when talking to a newbie, I would use the long version to simply avoid any confusion.
 
Lyion said:
So, I was recently wondering about something. When you guys have a snake with the hets to produce a codominant morphs, what do you display it as? For example if you had a charcoal het amel, cinder would you display it as charcoal het amel,cinder or charcoal het peppermint?

Personally, I would do the first rather than the latter. I wish there was a universally known way to simply go:

Charcoal het Amel<Peppermint>Cinder

and have people know that I meant that those two could create Peppermint. Oh well, C'est la vie!

But what do you guys generally do?
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Different people label things different ways, and many people understand what is meant if they have an understanding of the genetics that produce certain morphs. However, I find the most accurate way to label things like that with mutiple genes involved are like this, with what the seperate gene combinations can potentially produce, because many offspring with be homozygous for one gene or the other, or either morph and possible het for the other, as well as triple hets too so listing them seperately and then the potential morph combination coined name in parenthesis afterwards is how I generally do it.......... i.e. Charcoal, het amel/cinder (peppermint)


cheers, ~Doug
 
So I just hatched some bloodreds het ice and snow ghost stripe (poss het caramel!) a while ago, and they took their second feeding of reds today!!

Wait- that's not as clear as I thought it was going to be...
 
Susan said:
I usually depends upon who you are talking to. For those that I know have a good grasp of corn snake genetics/morphs, I would use normal het snow/charcoal het peppermint/amel het plasma, but marking something for sale or when talking to a newbie, I would use the long version to simply avoid any confusion.
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I very much agree with that too.......the long version eliminates any potential confusion, especially when stating the genetics for potential sales or to mewbies that aren't aware of certain coined names and the combinations that produce them. That is basically exactly what I said below. :)



~Doug
 
Nanci said:
So I just hatched some bloodreds het ice and snow ghost stripe (poss het caramel!) a while ago, and they took their second feeding of reds today!!

Wait- that's not as clear as I thought it was going to be...
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HAHA!!,........I think I understood. Wasn't there supposed to be a comma between the word "ice" & "and" though? :)
 
I personally say het anery, amel. I do that because when I first got Owl he was marked het snow, but I didn't know that snow was anery+amel.
 
For the record, I like spelling out each individual het. But I like Doug's method of adding the morph combo in parenthesis at the end.
 
I have a question. Does that ever cause confusion? I've seen some people use parenthasis like this:

Normal het anery, amel (albino)
 
I think it would cause confusion in that case, because "albino" isn't a particularly specific term when used with Corns.
 
Leave off albino. Stick to the common trade name "amel." If someone asks, you can explain that it is another term for albino.
 
Yes. Honestly I always get a little annoyed when I hear people say albino over amel. Sort of like when I hear people say it is a poisonous snake, but not as extreme.
 
Personally I don't like het snow because you can't be het for snow, only the traits that combine to produce it. It's also annoying when you're trying to calculate offspring possibilities because there is no "snow" in the calculation and you're not going to get 1/4, you're going to get 1/16. I think some sellers like to say het snow to make it sound better (not pointing any fingers, I'm just saying). And it starts to get complicated when you're talking about multiple traits. Just keep it simple and list the hets in my opinion. I think most people with corns do this, but with other species, ie hognose snakes, it's all het snow and such.
 
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