Thanks everyone - I absolutely love the variety that comes in cornsnakes - and the fact that an ordinary looking normal can be het for an amazing number of genes and you can get clutches with dozens of morphs is really appealing. I love it when the clutch hatches and it is such a suprise with every different nose that peeks out.
Christina - the definition of the morphs that are selectively bred - like sunglow, candycane and reverse okeetee is always so subjective. Anyone can call their snakes these morphs but I prefer to see close to ideal before I like to claim that it fits a morph. Even if the parents were ideal, it is so easy to lose these selectively bred characteristics in one generation.
For a reverse okeetee I want to see exactly what a great okeetee morph looks like with the black replaced by white. Like a great okeetee - very hard to come by. Very dark orange/red saddles, wide white borders and bright orange background color. This female has great wide white borders in her midsection but they are narrow at her upper body and neck. She has great saddle color, but her background color is washed out and very pale especially toward her tail.
This is a pic of her as a yearling to show the pattern. She is a lovely girl, if bred correctly could likely produce great reverse okeetees, but is not typical enough for me to want to represent her as one. As a hatchling, she apparently looked like a really good candy-cane, which I think is reflected in her pale background color now at maturity.
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