What is a corn snake "morph"? and what are the different corn snake "morphs" What are corn snake genes? and how do they affect "morphs" Genes We can't explain it well, so we use this web-sites VMS herp Learning Center These guys do a GREAT job of explaining this type of stuff and also have given us some of our beautiful bloodreds. "Normal Morphs" - these are snakes found in the wild originally Okeetee Common or Classic or "normals" Miami Some Genes affect color and some affect Patterns on the snake Color morphs Single genes that affect colors First we have genes that affect the dark colors leaving the reds and oranges alone Amelanistic - no blacks or brown Hypomelanistic - a little bit of black or brown Then we have the ones that affect the reds and oranges Anerythristic type A - no red or orange - usually dark grey or black with white Charcoal = Anery type B - no red or orange or yellow - so they have grey to black with white Caramel = Anery type C - The color turns brownish greenish sometimes... pretty cool Then there are other colors as well Lavender - looks grey to light purple There are some other single gene colors and new ones are found every once in a while, but these are     some of the most common ones. One of the "weird" genes is called "bloodred"  This is a gene that affects the color AND the pattern As you can imagine from the name, a bloodred is red in color.  As a baby, there are other colors (white     and grey in the head) but as the snake gets older the colors all blend together (diffuse) and the snake     becomes almost solid red. Baby Bloodred                    Yearling Bloodred                Adult Bloodred It becomes even neater when we "mix up" genes Double gene colors Blizzard This is a combination of Amelanistic and Charcoal. Ghost Snow - so if I took an anery A (no red or orange) and put it with an amel (no blacks or dark browns) what do I have left?  I just took out all of the common cornsnakes normal colors except for the white... you guessed it!  I have a white snake with pretty patterns... Opal Butter Amber Phantom Pewter Triple Gene Colors - There are some Coral Snow - this is a Hypomelanistic snow.  Which means it is hypo amel and anery. Pattern morphs Stripe Motley Zig Zag Aztec Bloodred Making babies from these "morphs" to make some of the stuff "stronger" Types: Hurricane Motley Abbott's Okeetee Sunglow Motley - bred to get rid of the "white" How they work I take some babies... A GREAT program we found to figure out which moms and dads will make which kinds of babies is Micks Cornsnake Predictor.  Click on it to get it!  IT'S FREE!  But ask mom and dad first.

Please note, this page is still under construction, if you would like to help us (adding pictures of morphs we don't have or suggestions) we would LOVE it!