Corn Snake Morph Genes

[Minkness]

I have a male hypo moon stone and the store ai got hom from has a nice stripe amel female and a ghost tessera female. I was thinking of maybe getting them as a future breeding project. Would this trio produce anything of interest?

I'm not sure how cornsnake color genetics work. So would I get things like a stripe moon stone? A hypo stripe? A moon stone tessera? All normals?

[Albert Clark]

Fantastic Mink that you are going to get into breeding. I would think with the hypo and ghost traits both being recessive as well as the amelanistic. You are on the right track to produce striped moonstones and tessera moonstones with both having or being het hypo and het ghost. The ghost and amelanistic along with hypo should give a interesting coloration or lack thereof in some of the hatchlings.... I think... Lol

[SerpentineDream]

Here you go. You can look up what genes make your morphs, then plug said genes into the calculator to see what results you might get from a pairing.

Cornsnake Morph Calculator - Ians Vivarium (http://iansvivarium.com/morphcalculator/)

[Minkness]

Thanks! But that is so confusing o.o -is lost-

[SerpentineDream]

It's not that bad, it just looks intimidating.

Go into their morph list and find your morph. Write down what genes go into it. Repeat for each snake you want to breed. Go to the calculator and plug in the genes for your male and female. It will spit out the possible offspring for each pairing.

[Charis]

For the first generation offspring, the Ghost Tessera is the best mate to your male, if you want morphs. All of those genes but Tessera are recessive, though a few can be more complicated than that. A Ghost is an Hypo Anery A and a Moonstone is an Anery A and Lavender snake, genetically. If you bred those two together, you would get all Ghost babies, no normals, because both of the parents are homo Anery A and Hypo. Assuming the Tessera is a het Tess, most are, you'd also have a 50/50 chance of each baby being a Ghost Tessera. All of the babies would be het Lavender. That is assuming that neither snake has any other hets in common. If the Tessera is a homo Tess, rare but not impossible, all of the babies would be Ghost Tessera.

If you bred the Moonstone to the Amel Stripe, in the first generation, you'd get all normals, het Anery A, Hypo, Lavender, Amel and Stripe, again assuming no unknown genes in common. If you then bred those babies back to each other, you'd get a wide assortment in the second generation.

Hopefully that's helpful!

[Minkness]

Super helpful! The tess may be the way to go it sounds. Not super sure I want to dive into that, but it's good to know for sure!

Thanks!