Our Family of Emoryi/Corn Babies.

[HanneysCorns]

I thought I would post our 5 emoryi corn babies from Mary. Jake and Wendy are rootbeers, het caramel and as always, the het caramel seems to be showing thru.

Winter is the snow emoryi/corn, and we also brought 2 of her siblings, anery emoryi/corns back from Winnipeg too.

Don't you think we need some 'nifty' names for emoryi/corns too? So far we have creamsicles, cinnamons, rootbeers, but now that more folks are working on other colour morphs, maybe some thinking caps need to go on and some trade names need to be put up there for consideration.

Might be an interesting discussion for another thread....

Enjoy the pics...

Ruth

[EeekSnakes]

Looking good. Honestly I'm looking forward to seeing how they look as they age. It could just be me, but all I see is corn. I wonder how that will change as they grow.

[vanderkm]

Looking great Ruth - I will have to post some pics of the siblings I kept back.

Christina - as you say - the anery and snows look a lot like corns. Have to keep in mind that these are at least 75% corn (ghost corn mother and creamsicle father who is estimated as 50% emoryi - I don't know much on his parentage). The only emoryi features I have found are the relatively high saddle count - about 40 from neck to vent in most of them, as well as the very thin saddle borders. Some clutchmates have reduced head and belly patterns. I am very interested to see how these mature and will likely breed my keepers to some higher percentage emoryi lines or perhaps pure emoryi to intensify the emoryi character in future generations.


mary v.

[vanderkm]

Few sibling pictures - to Ruth's snow and anerys for comparison purposes -

Gritz is a cinnmon brother - he shows a reduced head and belly pattern - don't have a belly picture uploaded


Raven could easily pass for a snow corn - but I wonder how much yellow infusion will occur in these since it is almost absent in emoryi. Hope to select against it in the future if I keep working with these guys.


Same for the ghosts - but they do have the higher saddle count with narrow saddles
Phrenzy - one of the females is darker


and Phreak - the male ghost is actually quite light - hope he keeps this color


Did manage to get quite good orange color in the creamsicles from this clutch



mary v.

[HanneysCorns]

Oh Mary, that male ghost is awesome.

Thanks for posting these guys. And you're right, the saddle borders are so thin. I'm beginning to see the visual difference between hatchling snow corns and Winter. I held a couple back, and the saddle difference does stand out when you compare the two closely.

The aneries, well they are easily distinguished when put with an anery corn hatchling.

I'm quite enjoying watching these guys mature.

Ruth

[Dionythicus]

A caramel "rootbeer" could be Sasparilla or Ginger Ale.

[VicMcDougal]

Beautiful snakes you got there.

[EeekSnakes]

Thanks Mary, mucly appreciated the explanation and pics. I can see the differences with Gritz.

It will be interesting to see how much yellowing creeps up on the snows and aneries.

[Joni Garcia]

Nice looking group! Love the cool looking head on Gritz.

[Scottsquatch]

Yes, I'm all for some creative names for corn/emoryi crosses as well. While not my main projects, I DO have a rootbeer and a creamsicle and am planning on doing some work crossing those into different corn morphs as well. Gonna have to get a couple pure emoryi though, so I can keep the percentage of emoryi blood up.