Snow X Snow Cornsnake eggs!! How the heck did I end up with Amels and Snows!!!

[Deano82]

As the title says, i have a clutch of 15 eggs hatching from a snow X snow corn breeding and so far I have one amel hatchling and one snow...I thought that was genetically impossible for that to happen?? Shouldn't snow X snow produce 100% snow hatchlings?? Anybody have any ideas?

[Andy b 1]

maybe the whores been sleeping around




or maybe it was a het amel? where your snake makes an amel colour

[Shadow_Eyed]

Originally Posted by Andy b 1

or maybe it was a het amel? where your snake makes an amel colour

Not possible, as Snow IS amel and anery, so cant be het amel

[Andy b 1]

ahh i see, im on the ball tonight...

i stand by my first option

[Lostcorn]

Interesting

I have "Snow" eggs pipping now , wonder what I will get ?

cheers

John

[Deano82]

Originally Posted by Shadow_Eyed

Not possible, as Snow IS amel and anery, so cant be het amel

That was my understanding as well , the only male I own and she has been mated with is a male snow so I really don't understand how it's genetically possible...

[Deano82]

Originally Posted by Lostcorn

Interesting

I have "Snow" eggs pipping now , wonder what I will get ?

cheers

John

Well if my clutch is anything to go by you could get anything

[Shadow_Eyed]

When did you get the female? Any chance she could of retained sperm from a previous breeding?

[bothrops]

Originally Posted by Andy b 1

maybe the whores been sleeping around




or maybe it was a het amel? where your snake makes an amel colour

Couldn't be het amel if both parents were visual snows as they would both be homozygous recessive for anery and amel.

The only thing I can think of is that one of your snows is actually a blizzard. This would mean that each 'snow' carries an incompatible anery strain (normal snow is homozygote for anery type 'A', blizzard is homozyote for anery type 'B' (AKA 'charcoal').

This would make your offspring 100% amel 100% het anery het charcoal.

However, you also have had a 'snow' come out. For this to occur one of the adults must also be het for the other anery type!

Please post photos of both parents and all the whole litter to help us out!

Cheers


Andy

p.s. thanks for a juicy genetics question! makes a change from 'what do I get if...'

[Lostcorn]

I also thought about the blizzard issue , but I dont know enough about genetics to think it through but I think that might be the answer.

Will be interested to see what people with a good knowledge of genetics think.

John