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musical2one
Snake Mite
USA
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 Posted - 21/04/2011 : 21:53:29
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| This isn't really a question about my snakes. I was just wondering what the steps are for determining a morph. Like how do you decide its amel or anery or normal (what are the characteristics you look for)? And how do you decide its het for something? And then whats makes them the second part of the morph? for example anery motley...where does the motley come from? Is there like step by step instructions for determining these things lol |
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gingerpony
Queen Bee
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21/04/2011 : 22:01:03
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there's the corn morph bible to help http://iansvivarium.com/cornsnakemorphs.php
there's new morphs being created every year, different colours and patterns, some can be quite difficult to determine unless you know the parentage, or have proved the genetics with breeding and identifying the offspring, and a lot of colours change as the snake matures |
cornsnakes, ratsnakes, bullsnakes, boas and day geckos
Location:Leeds/York/Selby area |
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gingerpony
Queen Bee
United Kingdom
10455 Posts |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 22:05:54
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the first part of the desciption is usually the colour morph
the second part (if there is one) eg. motley, stripe, striped motley, motley stripe, aztec, patternless, vanishing, tessera, is the pattern
so an 'anery motley' is anerythristic colour (ie.lacking red pigment) and has a motley pattern |
cornsnakes, ratsnakes, bullsnakes, boas and day geckos
Location:Leeds/York/Selby area |
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gmac
The Scottish Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21/04/2011 : 22:10:53
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| if you have a look in the genetics subsection of Iansviv there are explanations to all of this |
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musical2one
Snake Mite
USA
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Posted - 21/04/2011 : 22:15:21
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| Okay; so one of my snakes is an anery because he is quite light in color, which obviously means he is lacking black pigments; and my other one is a hypo because he is a bright red showing that he lacks a black pigment. Is that right? am I making sense of this? |
http://reptilesia.blogspot.com/
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musical2one
Snake Mite
USA
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gingerpony
Queen Bee
United Kingdom
10455 Posts |
Posted - 21/04/2011 : 22:49:59
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hypo reduces black pigment (melanin)
anery lacks erythrin (red) pigment |
cornsnakes, ratsnakes, bullsnakes, boas and day geckos
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How to decide a morph
