Mystery Corn Snake Babies, Please Help!

I have a clutch of 13 eggs hatching. The cross is amel x tessera, no known hets. It was kind of an accident, but anyway. 2 out of 13 are waaay lighter and pinker than the others. One has grey eyes with a ruby pupil and light grey belly checks. The other has brown eyes and almost no belly checks. Do the parents have a het I didn’t know about? Hypo maybe?

Pictures with more normal colored siblings.



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Looks like the Tessera was het Ultra, as these appear to be Ultramels.

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Oh! That would make more sense than them both having the same unknown het

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Man those babies are awesome looking! Very very nice! Welcome to the forum btw! :blush:

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While there are many snakes floating around with unknown hets, the fact that one parent was Amel narrowed things down quite a bit. Congrats on the surprise!

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Are those 2 babies going to be keepers? Just curious……. :thinking::woman_shrugging:

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Thank you! I’m so excited all 13 hatched

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One is being kept for sure (my daughter fell in love with it) the other may be for sale. They are literally just hatching today/yesterday though, so I need to get them feeding before posting them

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By the way, I do want to sell the father (tessera apparently het ultra) because I was incorrectly told he was a female. He’s a great snake with a huge appetite

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You’d have to do that by making an account on the main side of MorphMarket, as sales are not allowed via the forum.

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Oh I know, I did that already, thanks!

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Welcome to our community! Congrats on your lovely babies! Your daughter fell in love with one, you say? Only one, lol? It’s so much fun to discover unexpected hets, too. Do you need any info on how to handle all the new additions?

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Thanks! I’ve got them all set up in a baby rack.

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Sounds good. The toughest part for me is not bugging them too much until they’ve taken a couple of meals. :wink:

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Yeah, it’s tempting. Three of them took their first pinky tonight though! All three tesseras. I wonder if there is a correlation?

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Yay! Good for the clean plate crew! Sure hope that continues! :+1:

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Hooray for babies taking meals! Wonderful news!

I don’t think there’s a correlation, but heck, who knows? Whatever the case, it’s great news when they start eating with no hesitation.

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