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Curious about this morph of my corn snake

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iashia

I recently bought a pair of corn snakes. Im curious about feedback on what you think one of their morphs is.

the dam is a classic het. amel, charcoal, bloodred and the sire is a morphbloodred

now, i bought a 1.0 classic het bloodred and a 0.1 bloodred, but she doesnt look like the pictures of bloodred that ive seen.

what do you think

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Topics:	Skin
Tags:	Cornsnake, Morph, Red
Species:	Other Colubrids > Other Colubrids > Elaphe guttata guttata
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Member Comment

9/9/2009 1:46:26 AM

FyreFocks

Bloodreds definitely need time to change colors, even as babies. I would say its a tough call right now except that yours has a gray head which is typical (i think) of blood babies.

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9/9/2009 1:48:27 AM

FyreFocks

Also, you have pictures of 3 different snakes up. I thought you only bought a pair and i thought only one of them was bloodred?

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9/9/2009 9:46:52 AM

JohnJohn

Yep. babies look very different from adults. Even "normals" look very different as babies. They change a lot during the first year.

Author Comment

9/9/2009 12:11:35 PM

iashia

otay. i was curious about their patterning. coz you can have a ( lets say) labrynth burm as a baby and have it look completly different 2 years down the road. and i did only get one bloodred, i was just showing pics of the clutch.

Member Comment

9/9/2009 12:22:31 PM

JohnJohn

You'll probably be able to see it looks a little different after every shed. That's one thing I like about baby corn snakes.

Bloodreds are awesome. Congrats on that.

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9/9/2009 2:49:54 PM

FyreFocks

I think its safe to say you got a bloodred, so long as the head is gray like in the pictures you posted.

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9/9/2009 4:35:32 PM

JohnJohn

If it's a bloodred it will have no belly checks.

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9/9/2009 5:58:13 PM

FyreFocks

I did not know that, John.

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9/9/2009 7:20:40 PM

MegF

The grey head is typical of a bloodred. Not all change over to solid red though. It's difficult to find really nice bloodreds anymore. The belly as mentioned will be free of checkering just as they are with stripes, motleys and other morphs of that type.

Author Comment

9/9/2009 8:24:32 PM

iashia

they came in today and they are all that i expected !!! =))

i have to take a pic of her belly, but its a beautiful pearly white, no checks. the other one, the classic, amazingly checkered, its kinda cool =) ill go take those pics now

Accepted Answer

9/9/2009 8:53:53 PM

Floof

They look like bloodred to me! They do change a LOT from hatchling to adult. Just in a few sheds, you will see the orange/red background coming in and the borders on the saddles fading. If you don't mind, here are some pics of my bloodred boy... He's a 2008 June hatchling, so a bit over a year old.

February 2009, shortly after I purchased him...

Now, last month (August 2009), after a shed...

As you can see, in a matter of 6 months, his color has changed dramatically. He's only grown 20 or 30 grams, too, which isn't a lot of shedding...

Congrats on the new snakes! Those are some awesome hets, too. Breed them in 3 or 4 years, and you have a chance at hitting the Whiteout (Blizzard Bloodred) jack-pot!!

Oh, and, remember to take lots of pictures. Before you know it, your little blood baby will be a big red monster! =)

Author Comment

9/9/2009 9:04:35 PM

iashia

wow hes beautiful! and what a dramatic change!! his head is already changing red!! ias that normal?? is that how big they get in only 6 months? ill post some of mine too, and thank you for sharing =))

Author Comment

9/9/2009 9:10:37 PM

iashia

now, someones gonna have to repost this, because i still cant figure out how to post the actual picture.....even tho jeffs told me how maybe jeff will see this and fix it.

female head and belly

[IMG]http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l75/iashia_1991/101_0108.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l75/iashia_1991/101_0132.jpg[/IMG]

male head and belly

[IMG]http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l75/iashia_1991/101_0117.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l75/iashia_1991/101_0144.jpg[/IMG]

Author Comment

9/9/2009 9:12:24 PM

iashia

my god....

female head and belly

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l75/iashia_1991/101_0108.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l75/iashia_1991/101_0132.jpg

male head and belly

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l75/iashia_1991/101_0117.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l75/iashia_1991/101_0144.jpg

Member Comment

9/10/2009 12:01:11 AM

Floof

Thanks. And, yes, bloodred heads generally turn completely red, along with the body, as they change.

All snakes grow at different rates. Rhythm is a slow-grower... Completely opposite to Hansel (another '08 male--hatched a couple months later), who is a fast-grower. As opposed to the 40-ish, 65, and 70-something grams my other three '08s are, he is now over 100 grams. The 65 gram-er is his sister/clutchmate, coincidentally.

Your new babies are lovely! Again, congratulations! =)

Author Comment

9/10/2009 12:43:52 AM

iashia

thank ya thank ya =))

Member Comment

9/10/2009 8:33:32 AM

Sparkle

I had the same trouble with posting pictures in blogs and Q&A, and Jeff told me the secret: Pay no attention to the link on Photobucket. Just OPEN the picture from the Photobucket page, right-click it and choose Properties. There under properties is the link that you need to copy/paste in order for the picture to show up.

I kept using the "email this picture to a friend" link but that's not it.

Member Comment

9/10/2009 12:12:53 PM

Floof

Sparkle, the link you want is the "Direct Link". =)

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